U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1879

Sargeant v. First Nat. Bank

Sargeant v. First Nat. Bank
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · Decided January 25, 1879 · Mekennan
21 F. Cas. 491; 7 Reporter, 231; 1879 U.S. App. LEXIS 2068
Sargeant v. First Nat. Bank

Opinion of the Court

MeKENNAN, Circuit Judge.

The court has no power to make the order asked for. The rule which is binding upon this court provides that no more time than three months shall be allowed for taking testimony without a special order. But suppose the testimony had been taken, the case must take the usual course and wait for its turn on the regular argument list. All that the rule requires is that the evidence shall be in within a fixed time, if not it is at the complainant’s peril, but he is then only deprived of the testimony which diligence would have supplied him with and loses none of his other rights. Motion denied.

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