Burt v. Allen

The single exception in this case is to the admission in evidence, at the trial in the superior court, of a deposition taken under a commission from that court, in the state of Maine, upon written interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, before a justice of the peace, who certifies thereon that the deponent “ made solemn oath that the within and foregoing deposition by her subscribed contains the truth, -the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

The Gen. Sts. c. 131, §§ 34-36, provide that the deposition of a witness without the state may be taken under a commission from the court, or…