Graff v. Tinkham

A new trial must be granted. Much of the evidence introduced related to conditions as they were long after the transactions complained of and after difficulties, over which the defendant could exercise no control, had visited themselves upon the enterprise. The plaintiffs were permitted to introduce testimony, over defendant’s objection, of conversations in West Virginia at which neither plaintiffs nor defendant were present, tending to show that *145representations similar to those charged against defendant had been made by Mr. Barrett to the witness Huber.

The plaintiff Charles W. Graff was…