McCann v. Beach

Appeal from the District Court of the 8th Judicial District, for- the County of Tuba.

The plaintiff below filed his complaint against the appellant and John A. Sutter, upon an alleged promise to pay him $16 per copy for copying the list of shares in the town of Plermas, and averring that the plaintiff made sixty-three copies; for which the defendants had failed and refused to pay, &c. A partial payment was admitted, and a balance claimed of $880. The defendant Beach answered, denying the complaint generally. The plaintiff, on leave, amended his complaint by striking out the name of Sutter.

On the calling of the cause for trial, the defendant moved for a continuance, for the absence of material witnesses, who had been subpoened, and failed to attend; but no affidavit being ready, the Court refused to allow time to prepare one, and overruled the motion. The plaintiff offered in evidence the deposition of one Farley, a resident of Tuba county, taken before a notary public of the same county; to which the defendant objected, on the ground that a notary had no power to take the deposition of a witness residing in the county; but the objection Was overruled. The defendant offered in evidence the judgment obtained against him by the plaintiff in the preceding cause, as showing a former recovery; but the evidence was excluded. The defendant excepted. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $750, and judgment was rendered accordingly.