Keene v. Meade
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court, for the county of Washington in the district of Columbia. In the circuit court the testator of the defendant in error Richard W. Meade, instituted an action against Richard R. Keene, the plaintiff in error, for money lent and advanced to him in Spain, where Mr Meade, at.the time of-the.loan, resided, and carried on business as a merchant.
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ERROR to the circuit court, for the county of Washington in the district of Columbia. In the circuit court the testator of the defendant in error Richard W. Meade, instituted an action against Richard R. Keene, the plaintiff in error, for money lent and advanced to him in Spain, where Mr Meade, at.the time of-the.loan, resided, and carried on business as a merchant. In order to establish the claims of the plaintiff below, a commission was issued to Cadiz;, and under the same, certain depositions were taken, which were returned with the commission. The commission was directed to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
This case comes up on a writ of error to the-circuit court of the district of Columbia, and the questions for decision grow out cf bills of exception taken at the trial, and relate to the admission of evidence offered on the part of the plaintiff, and objected to by the defendant.
The first objection was to the admission of the depositions taken under a commission issued under a rule or order of the court below, on the ground of a variance in the name of the testator Meade, as set out in the commission, from that stated-in the title of the cause. The commission purports to be in a cause…
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