1781.
O
N an information for goods fiezed as Britiʃh goods, and imported into the State of Pennƒylvania, the following points were refolved:1ft. That the informer be a witnefs.
2d. That, although the informer releafes his right to a molety of the goods, he cannot be a witnefs ; becaufe he is interefted in the event ; he being liable to pay the cofts of the claimants, in cafe a verdict is found for them.
3d. That by the Act of Affembly, the judge who tries the caufe not being authorized to certify, fo as to exempt the informer from the payment of cofts to the claimants, he cannot certify.
4th. That where the informer called a witnefs, who was contradicted by another witnefs of his own, he cannot call his firft witnefs to difprove what the fecond has faid.
Lewis for the Claimants—Blair for the Informer.
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