Superior Court of North Carolina May 5, 1803 (Rutledge v. Read.)

lead-opinion

The deposition offered in evidence was taken not at the precise day mentioned in the notice, but on the next day, upon an adjournment; and it is objected that a deposition cannot be taken at an adjourned day, for then the commissioners by adjourning for weeks or months might compel the party noticed to remain on expenses, or abandon his cross-examination, and it is urged that if the