Trumbull v. O'Hara
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a promissory note, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Welch, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Action to recover the amount of a promissory note, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Welch, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The substance of the complaint is that on the 19th day of April, 1893, by his promissory note of that date, made at Litchfield in this State, the defendant promised to pay to the plaintiff, three months after date, at the First National Bank of said Litchfield, the sum of $110, and that he had failed and neglected to pay…
1Opinion of the CourtTokkance, J.
The errors assigned upon this appeal are sixteen in number, but for convenience in discussion they may be divided into: (1) those which relate to the admission of parol evidence which the plaintiff claimed contradicted and varied the note sued upon; (2) those which relate to the exclusion of certain evidence j (3) those which relate to the charge to the jury; and they will be considered in the order here stated.
Upon the trial of this case in the court below the defend*176ant offered parol evidence in support of his second and third defenses. As we understand the record upon this point, the…
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