Court Opinion

ID: 3554956
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:06:18.109384+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:25:41.045850
License: Public Domain

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. *Page 406