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Scope and Content Note
This series contains interrogatories, cross-interrogatories, and depositions of witnesses in proceedings in the Court of Chancery, the Court of Equity (1st Circuit), and the Court of Chancery (1st Circuit). Almost all the depositions were taken by an Examiner in Chancery; a few were taken by court-appointed commissioners.
Besides interrogatories and cross-interrogatories (questions to a witness) and the witnesses' depositions (answers to the questions), the files include documentary exhibits, instructions to Examiners, writs of commission, and other documents. A few of the depositions were taken conditionally (de bene esse) from a witness who was transient or ill.
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