U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia November 8, 1853 (Bell v. Lewis)

The following is the decree:

This cause having been regularly set for hearing, and coming on to be heard on the bill, answer, the exhibits and proofs taken and filed in the same (the complainant having refused to read in evidence the depositions of Isaac Bell, Senior, which have been taken by said complainant, and the defendant’s counsel having thereupon read the same) and the court having heard,