Richardson v. Crandall

In examining this case I have confined my attention to the matters of fact set forth in the stipulation executed by the attorneys for the respective parties, with the exception of the single fact testified to by the defendant, that he reported his official action in the premises to his official superior in the government. The other matters testified to were received conditionally, and as I do not perceive that they have any special materiality, and were, perhaps, in strictness, incompetent as matters of evidence, I reject and exclude them from the case. The fact of the communication of the…