1 Root 501 | Conn. | 1793
Underhill of New! York, owned the vessel; the plaintiff claimed her by virtue of a bill of sale from Close, captain of the vessel and agent for said Underhill; the defendant set up title to her in virtue of a purchase from said Under-hill, subsequent to the bill of sale from Close — whose power of agency and right to sell was drawn in question. And the defendant moved that Close might be sworn as a witness; but by the court was not admitted, for after he has executed a bill of sale in the name of Underhill, it shall not lie in his power to swear that he had no right to do it.