Case Name: Norris against Beach
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1807-05
Citations: 2 Johns. 294
Docket Number: 
Parties: Norris against Beach.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 294–294

Head Matter:
Norris against Beach.
A witness who attended the court to prove a will, was arrested on his return home, by process out of the mayor’s court, and-this court, on motion, discharged him from the arrest. ■
Griffin moved that the defendant be discharged from the arrest in this cause. He read an affidavit, stating that the defendaritxesided in the-state'of Connecticut, and had attended this court at the request of an executor and devisee of a will for the purpose of proving the will, to which he was a subscribing witness pursuant to the act; and that after he had given the requisite testimony, he was proceeding from court on his way home, when he was arrested at the suit of the plaintiff, on a writ issued out of the mayor’s court.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and when they do attend we are bound to protect them redeundo. Take your rule.
Rule granted.