Case Name: Levi Rogers, Petitioner, versus Benjamin Hill
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1808-05
Citations: 3 Tyng 349
Docket Number: 
Parties: Levi Rogers, Petitioner, versus Benjamin Hill.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 307–307

Head Matter:
Levi Rogers, Petitioner, versus Benjamin Hill.
The affidavit of a petitioner for a review is not received, except as to facts excln sively known to himself, or to obtain an order of notice.
This was a petition for a review. The petitioner, in support of his application, offered his own affidavit, that since the former trial he had learned that a certain witness would have testified to facts, which were material in his defence, and that at the time of the trial he was ignorant of this circumstance.

Opinion:
The Court
refused to receive the affidavit, saying he should have summoned the witness referred to, or have obtained his deposition. The affidavitof a party petitioning for a review, is not tobe received except when testifying'to facts which can be known but to himself alone, or to obtain an order of notice on his petition.