Case Name: Stephen Stewart, sen. and Stephen Stewart, jun. (for the use of Levi Hollingsworth and Joseph Carson) against John Ross
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1792-04
Citations: 1 Yeates 148
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stephen Stewart, sen. and Stephen Stewart, jun. (for the use of Levi Hollingsworth and Joseph Carson) against John Ross.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 1
Pages: 148–148

Head Matter:
Stephen Stewart, sen. and Stephen Stewart, jun. (for the use of Levi Hollingsworth and Joseph Carson) against John Ross.
S. C. 2 Dall. 157.
Depositions of witnesses taken under a commission, allowed to be read in evidencé, tho’ all the interrogatories have not been answered, the commissioners on both sides and one of the plaintiffs having attended the execution, of the commission.
Debt. Exception was taken in this cause, to the execution of a certain commission issued to Baltimore in Maryland, because answers had not been given to all the plaintiffs interrogatories, by the witnesses examined for the defendant.
Messrs. Lewis, Sergeant and Hallowell, pro quer.
Messrs. Ingersol and Mifflin, pro def.

Opinion:
Per Cur.
It appears here, that the commissioners appointed on both sides have attended the execution of the commission. There therefore can be no reasonable grounds of suspicion, as there might possibly have been, if the commissioners for the defendant alone had attended.
Besides, one of the plaintiffs was present, and-we must presume that he waved the taking or putting down the answers, or that the witnesses knew nothing of the facts referred to.
Moreover it appears to us, that the interrogatories to which there are no answers, are specially calculated to be addressed to the clerks of the plaintiffs who have not been examined.
The commission and return were therefore read in evidence.