Allen v. Broom ( 1786 )

PETITION for a new trial.—It came to its turn in the order of the docket and the files could not be produced.—It was suggested that one of the Attorneys for the defendant who was absent probably had them in his possession.-The Court said that if any one would designedly carry off the files of the Court, they ought to be proceeded against for a contempt. They ordered the action to be erased from the docket, and that an entry be made, that it was because there were no files produced.—