Hedge v. Clapp
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, tried before the jury, at the August term, 1852, of the county court, for Hartford county. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice of special matter, to be given in evidence, and also, that she should claim a set-off of an indebtedness of the plaintiff.
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This was an action of assumpsit, tried before the jury, at the August term, 1852, of the county court, for Hartford county. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice of special matter, to be given in evidence, and also, that she should claim a set-off of an indebtedness of the plaintiff. On the trial, the plaintiff offered Dorcas H. Chandler, as a witness, who testified, that certain household furniture) which was a matter of charge against the plaintiff, in the defendant’s notice of set-off, was in the defendant’s possession, about the last of May, or first of June, 1851 ; that…
1Opinion of the CourtCironcH, C. J.
This is a motion in error, to reverse the judgment of the superior court, by which a judgment of the county court, on motion in error, had been affirmed.
*266The ground of exception to the decision of the county court is, that witnesses were called by the defendant to testify, and did testify, that Dorcas H. Chandler, who had before been called by the plaintiff, to testify, had, out of court, stated to them, facts contradictory to, and inconsistent with, her testimony given in chief, for the plaintiff, without being inquired of, by the defendant, on her cross-examination, and without testifying,…
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