Case Name: Jones versus Little
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1792
Citations: 2 Dall. 182
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jones versus Little.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 182–182

Head Matter:
Jones versus Little.
THE defendant’s counsel produced a certificate from a physician, stating that the defendant had been dangerously ill for three weeks last past; and thereupon moved to put off the trial.
But the Court held this to be no good cause for putting off the trial. And,

Opinion:
By Shippen, Justice.
If there had been an affidavit stating, that there were material witnesses, who had not been summoned in consequence of this sickness ; or if the plaintiff himself were a witness, to prove books or the like; that might have weight with the Court; but, as it is, the trial must proceed.