Texas v. Chiles

Citations

• 88 U.S. 488
• 22 L. Ed. 650
• 21 Wall. 488
• 1874 U.S. LEXIS 1388

Syllabus

<p>1. The purpose of the act of Congress (Revised Statutes, ?¿ 858) enacting that “in courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded ... in any civil action, because he is a party to or interested in the issue to be tried, Provided,” Ac., was to put the parties to a suit (except those named in a proviso to the enactment) on a footing of equality with other witnesses; that is to ' say, to make all admissible to testify for themselves, and all compellable to testify for others.</p> <p>2. An order accordingly made for a subpoena to a defendant in equity, in order that his deposition might he taken for the complainant.</p>