Case Name: The E. C. SCRANTON
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1870-04
Citations: 8 F. Cas. 296
Docket Number: Case No. 4,272
Parties: The E. C. SCRANTON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 8
Pages: 296–297

Head Matter:
Case No. 4,272.
The E. C. SCRANTON.
[4 Ben. 127.]
District Court, S. D. New York.
April, 1870.
[Reported by Robert D. Benedict, Esq., and here reprinted by permission.]

Opinion:
BEATCHFORD, District Judge.
The exception is disallowed. The question of the propriety of the action of the commissioner, in refusing to allow a person to be sworn to contradict testimony previously given, cannot be raised by an exception to the report of the commissioner. It ought to have been raised by an application to the court, before the report was made, to direct the commissioner to allow the person to be sworn. The Columbus [Case No. 3,041]; Tyler v. Simmons, 6 Paige, 127; Schwarz v. Sears, Walk er, Ch. 19; Ward v. Jewett, Id. 45; Troy Iron & Nail Factory v. Corning [Case No. 14,196].