DE HAVEN verʃus HENDERSON.
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HE Plaintiff was examining a witnefs to prove the purport of an order given to him by the Adjutant General, during the late war, for the reftoration of his horfe, faddle and bridle, which had been feized by the Defendant, as the property of a difaffected perfon, although upon trial the Plaintiff was acquitted, when Levy objected, that the order itfelf ought to be produced, or fome account given of its lofs, before the witnefs was admitted to give evidence of its contents.
M‘KEAN, Chieƒ Juʃtice.– The oath of the Plaintiff muft be received to prove what has become of the order. Is is, I think, the only way in which fatisfactory information can be obtained on a point of this nature.
The Plaintiff, being accordingly fworn, and proving the lofs of the order, he was allowed to proceed in examining the witnefs as to its contents.