Rea v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: The First National Bank of Washington, D. C., in 18(39, having a judgment against one Perry Fuller, who had been a. large dealer with the Indians on the Western frontier, having more than one trading-place there, levied on certain goods at St. Louis, in Missouri, which they alleged to be his.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: The First National Bank of Washington, D. C., in 18(39, having a judgment against one Perry Fuller, who had been a. large dealer with the Indians on the Western frontier, having more than one trading-place there, levied on certain goods at St. Louis, in Missouri, which they alleged to be his. One Hayes, however, claimed them; and the sheriff refusing to go on with his levy unless indemnified, the bank, along with Rea and another, in accordance with a statute of Missouri, executed a bond to the State of'Missouri,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustice BRADLEY
delivered the opinion of the court.
1. As to the exception to the ruling of the court on the admission of evidence in the case. The cross-examination of Hayes was very long, and took a wide range: much wider than is allovved in United States courts in the case of an ordinary witness, where the cross-examination is usually confined within the scope of the direct examination. * But a greater latitude is undoubtedly allowable in the cross-examination of a party who places himself on the stand than in that of other witnesses. Still, where the cross-examination is directed to…
2Cited by57 opinions
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- Hewitt v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Bracey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1944
- Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941
- Robert Lee Skinner v. Harold J. Cardwell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
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