Case Name: James Atkinson v. Robert Glenn
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1831-04
Citations: 4 Cranch 134
Docket Number: 
Parties: James Atkinson v. Robert Glenn.
Judges: (MoRSell, J. absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 134–135

Head Matter:
James Atkinson v. Robert Glenn.
Notice on the 28th of December, to take a deposition in Alexandria, on the 29th, is not too short, all the parties residing in that town.
An affidavit may be sworn before the counsel of the party, and may be wholly in his handwriting.
The plaintiff’s counsel, Mr. Neale,
offered to read the deposition of Thomas Lee taken by commission under the Act of Virginia of November 29th, 1792, § 12, p. 279.
Mr. Hodgson, for the defendant,
objected that the notice was too short, it having been given on the 28th of December, to take the deposition on the 29th of December, at Alexandria; all the parties residing in that town.
He also objected, that the affidavit that the plaintiff’s claim depended, in a material part, upon the testimony of a single witness who was about to depart, was sworn before the plaintiff’s counsel as <a justice of the peace; and that the deposition also was wholly in his handwriting.

Opinion:
But the CouRT
(MoRSell, J. absent,)
overruled the objections, and permitted the deposition to be read.
Verdict for the plaintiff.