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2 Case, Josiah Wood, Jr. Plff. in Equity, vs. Samuel H. Mann, Jno. R. Adams, Elisha Fuller & Others, Defendants, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the First Circuit & District of Massachusetts. Before the Honorable Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and the Honorable John Davis, Justice of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Mass. 1836

handle is hein.trials/aawj0002 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPOSITION OF WITNESSES,
PRODUCED ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENDANTS.
DEPOSITION OF JOHN W. COOLIDGE.
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
District of Massachusetts, ss.
IN CHANCERY,
BETWEEN JOSIAH WOOD, JR. PLAINTIFF,
AND
SAMUEL H. MANN AND OTHERS, DEFTS.
Deposition of John W. Coolidge, of Lowell, in the District of Massachusetts,
a witness produced, sworn and examined, on the part of the defendants in
the above entitled cause.
I, John W. Coolidge, of Lowell, in the County of Middlesex, attorney at
law, of lawful age to give testimony, having been duly examined, cautioned
and sworn, to tell the whole truth, do testify, depose and say, in answer to the
following interrogatories, put by FRANKLIN DEXTER, Esq., Solicitor and Counsel
for Samuel H. Mann and others, defendants.
Interrogatory 1st. Have you examined that part of your former deposition
relating to the knowledge you had of the interview between said Mann and
Flagg, stated to have taken place on the 13th of May, A. D. 1831 ? If yea,
say whether the same is correct, or whether you can state the same more cor-
rectly and at large ; and state as particularly as you can the conversation be-
tween the parties, and your own means of observation, so far as the same is not
fully or is incorrectly stated in said deposition, if at all.
Answer. I have examined that part of my former deposition. My former
evidence on the topics mentioned in the question, is correct, in general, but my
answer to the first question proposed by the counsel for the defendants is wrong
in this respect. I stated there that I was called from the adjoining room by Mr.
Mann to witness the transaction before stated. I wish to state now, that although
I so testified, and though my impressions are still strong that I was so called,'
yet I have doubts whether I was not in the room during the whole transaction.
I think I might have been in the room during the whole transaction, without
being able to state what took place, excepting that to which my attention was
particularly called. The room occupied by Mr. Mann in which the transaction
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