Bissell v. Hamblin
The Superior Court of New York City
Appeal, by plaintiff, from a judgment entered on the report of a referee. The facts, and the single question of law arising thereon, are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Hoffman, J.
The plaintiff was regularly commissioned by the governor of Ohio, under the laws thereof, to act as commisioner in the state of New York, to take testimony, acknowledgments, etc..He was employed by the defendants to take testimony in a case depending in one of the courts of Ohio, in which they were plaintiffs, and J. A., Harmon and George Knight were defendants. Having received the commission and instructions, he commenced, under one notice to the opposite parties, on the 8th of November, and adjourned to the 10th. Afterwards another notice, served in Ohio on the 23d of January, for the 31st,…
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