Crosby v. Wells
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. This was an action upon contract brought by the plaintiff in error, also plaintiff below, against the defendant in error, also defendant below.
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On error to the Supreme Court. This was an action upon contract brought by the plaintiff in error, also plaintiff below, against the defendant in error, also defendant below. The plaintiff set forth in his declaration the common counts for money, and annexed thereto, as the particulars of his demand, a copy of a promissory note made by the defendant, November 8th, 1901, for.the payment of $1,600, three months after date, to the order of the plaintiff, and also a notice that judgment would be claimed for the said sum of money, with interest and costs. The defendant filed a plea of the general…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court (the foregoing statement having been made) was delivered by
Green, J.
I. a. Counsel for the plaintiff in error first objects to the question addressed to the witness Davis, that it was not proper cross-examination, the gist of the objection being that the question did not relate to matters brought out on the examination-in-chief, but tended to establish the defendant’s ease substantively by cross-examining the plaintiff’s witness, and that this course is not allowed by our practice. See Donnelly v. State (1857), 2 Dutcher 601, 610; Dennis v. Van Voy (1864), 2 Vroom 38,…
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