Booth v. McJilton

Citations

• 82 Va. 827
• 1 S.E. 137
• 1887 Va. LEXIS 153

Syllabus

<p>1. Witnesses.—Officer before whom grantor acknowledged deed is not agent of grantee, nor party to transaction, so as, the grantee being dead, to allow grantor to testify. Acts 1876—’7, p. 265.</p> <p>2. Idem—Depositions.—As a general rule, depositions cannot be retaken without leave of court. Carter v. Edmonds, 80 Va. 58.</p> <p>3. New Trial—After-discovered evidence.—To entitle one to new trial after-discovered evidence must be material, not merely cumulative and not such as ordinary diligence might have previously discovered. Whitehurst’s Case, 79 Va. 556.</p>