McGlasson v. Housel
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The question involved in this appeal arises on the consfcruction of sections one, two and three (taken together) of chapter 51 of the Revised Statutes of Illinois, being the Act in Regard to Evidence and Depositions, approved March 29, 1872.
We think the assignments of error on the ruling of the court below on the question asked one of the plaintiffs by his counsel, “ What is the book you now have in your hand ?”■—namely, that it could not be put because the witness was incompetent to testify in the cause at all, and the assignment of error on the subsequent similar and consistent ruling of…
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