WHITNEY v. FOX

No. 68.

166 U.S. 637 (1897)

WHITNEY v. FOX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 19, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arthur Brown for appellant. Mr. J.G. Sutherland was on his brief.

Mr. Jeremiah M. Wilson, for appellee. Mr. A.A. Hoehling, Jr., was on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

At the hearing of this cause in the inferior territorial court, the first testimony offered in plaintiff's behalf was his own deposition, taken in a suit in the Supreme Court of New York, wherein he and Wood were plaintiffs and Joab Lawrence, then living, was the defendant — that case being substantially for the same cause of action presented in this case. The court ruled that...

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