Case Name: Jenne v. Harrisville
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1885-06
Citations: 63 N.H. 405
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jenne v. Harrisville.
Judges: Carpenter, J., did not sit: the others concurred.
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 405–405

Head Matter:
CHESHIRE.
Jenne v. Harrisville.
Foreign unwritten law, including the prevailing construction of a foreign statute, may he proved by competent witnesses, and is a matter of fact determinable at the trial term.
Case. The plaintiff is a citizen of Vermont, and questions were raised as to the law of that state.
N. B. Bryant (of Massachusetts) (Lane 8f Bole with him), for the plaintiff,
cited Gen. Sts. Vt., e. 72, s. 1, and c. 20; Poultney v. Glover, 23 Vt. 328 ; Brown v. Ramsay, 29 N. J. L. 117; Guild v. Guild, 15 Pick. 129; Cromwell v. Benjamin, 41 Barb. 558; Hillsborough v. Deering, 4 N. H. 86.
Batchelder Faulkner, for the defendants,
cited 2 Kent Com. 459; Sto. Conf. Laws, s. 101; Gen. Sts. Vt., c. 72, s. 1; Kelley v. Davis, 49 N. H. 187.

Opinion:
Doe, C. J.
Foreign unwritten law, including the prevailing construction of a foreign statute, may be proved by competent witnesses, and is a matter of fact determinable at the trial term. Leach v. Pillsbury, 15 N. H. 137; Beach v. Workman, 20 N. H. 379; Watson v. Walker, 23 N. H. 471; Pickard v. Bailey, 26 N. H. 152 ; Holton v. Gleason, 26 N. H. 501; Emery v. Berry, 28 N. H. 485; Taylor v. Barron, 30 N. H. 100 ; Ferguson v. Clifford, 37 N. H. 87; Kennard v. Kennard [ante 303, 308] ; Dyer v. Smith, 12 Conn. 384; Holman v. King, 7 Met. 384; Kline v. Baker, 99 Mass. 253; 1 Gr. Ev., ss. 486, 488; Sto. Conf. Laws, ss. 637-639
Case discharged.
Carpenter, J., did not sit: the others concurred.