Den ex dem. Harker v. Gustin

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In examining the claim of the defendant to the new trial which ho seeks by the present motion, the admissibility of certain documentary evidence which he offered and which was rejected by the judge, is first to be considered.

In deducing title to the premises in controversy, he proposed to prove a deed of conveyance from Margaret Roy to Joseph I. Roy; and for this purpose offered an entry in the book of record of deeds of the county of Sussex, purporting to be such deed, and to have been proved before a master in chancery. The proof as…