Superior Court of Louisiana July 1, 1812 (M'Fall's Case)

By the Court.

Milage cannot be allowed, for witnesses are to be allowed only "for every mile "they shalt necessarily ride going and coming"now, if this man is under the necessity of returning home, it is not on account of the summons he has received, for he was not compelled to remove from the city of New-Orleans, in which he was summoned; so the necessity he is under, of returning to Kentucky,