Lewis v. Steiger
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The action was brought to recover money paid, laid out, and expended, for work and labor done, for goods sold and delivered, and upon a promissory note. The further facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.
— On the trial of this cause in the court below one Knight was examined as a witness in rebuttal, and gave testimony material for the plaintiff; on cross-examination he was asked in effect if he had not, at a certain time and place, proposed to the defendant to procure testimony for him in the case upon the payment by defendant of $250. Knight having answered in the negative, the defendant was called in his own behalf in surrebuttal, for the purpose of showing that such a proposal had been made by Knight, and of thus impeaching his testimony. To this plaintiff objected, upon the ground that…
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