Bush v. Weeks

Bockes, J.:

The only ground of error urged in this case is the refusal of the justice to grant a further adjournment, demanded by the defendant bn the twenty-third of December. There had been already three adjournments — one by consent of parties, and two on the defendant’s application. A fourth adjournment was demanded and refused by the justice, whereupon the defendant abandoned the case.

The last application was based on the absence of two witnesses, whom the defendant swore he had duly subpoenaed, and who, he also swore, were material and necessary witnesses for him on the trial of the…