Reid v. Reid

Hayne, C.

In order to contradict the defendant upon a material point, the plaintiff was permitted, against objection, to introduce the stenographer’s transcript of evidence given by the defendant in a different suit. This transcript, which does not appear from the record to have ever been filed, was certified by the stenographer “to be a true and correct transcription from my shorthand notes taken in the trial of said cause.” The stenographer was not examined as a witness, but the transcript was admitted on the faith of the certificate. The question is, whether the paper was legal evidence of…