Slaughter v. Rivenbark

We think the exceptions to the depositions of Mosley and Taylor well taken, and should have been sustained by the lower court.

The certificate of the officer before whom the depositions were taken, though evidently the result of a labored intent to do his duty, wholly failed in two important particulars to comply with the statute, as construed by former decisions of this court.

The officer, neither in the caption nor concluding certificate to the deposition, identified the suit in which the depositions were taken, excepting by reference to the ‘ ‘ annexed commission. ’ ’

We think this not a…