Bryant v. . Carrier

The appellants’ principal assignments of error relate to the rulings of the court below on matters of evidence and to his charge to the jury.

The exceptions to the admission of the testimony of a witness that he had arrested the defendant for some misdemeanor, and of another that the defendant had been tried in this court, cannot be sustained. One of the issues in the case involved the question of the mental capacity of defendant Carrier, in order to determine his liability for punitive damages. It was alleged in the answer that he was non compos mentis, and it was admitted on the trial that…