First National Bank v. Collins

Citations

• 26 Del. 475
• 3 Boyce 475
• 85 A. 412
• 1912 Del. LEXIS 64

Syllabus

<p>Pleading—Judgment on Pleadings—Affidavit of Demand—Officer Authorized to Administer Oath.</p> <p>Under Act April 6, 1905, entitled “An act providing salaries for certain state officials,” and recognizing the office of deputy prothonotary, and raising the office to a salaried office, and authorizing the prothonotary in each county to select deputies to assist in the performance of the duties of his office, a deputy prothonotary may perform such acts within the office of the prothonotary as are ministerial, and such other acts as are warranted by the occasion and directed by the court, and may administer the oath to the affiant in an affidavit of demand as a ministerial act.</p>