Case Name: Foreman v. Holmead
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1837-03
Citations: 5 Cranch 162
Docket Number: 
Parties: Foreman v. Holmead.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 5
Pages: 162–162

Head Matter:
Foreman v. Holmead.
A deposition cannot, under the Act of Congress, he taken before a judge of the city court of the city of Lexington, in Kentucky.
Mr. Redin, for the plaintiff,
offered to read a deposition taken before the judge of the City Court of the city of Lexington, in Kentucky.
Mr. Brent, for the defendant,
objected that the judge was not such a judge or chief magistrate as is described in the 30th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, [1 Stal. at Large, 73;] and

Opinion:
The Court
(Morsell, J.,
absent,) refused to suffer it to be read.