Parsons v. Huff
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, May, J., presiding. This was an action of trespass quare clausum. Plea, general issue, with a brief statement.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, May, J., presiding. This was an action of trespass quare clausum. Plea, general issue, with a brief statement. After the evidence was in, the Court instructed the jury that it was a rule or maxim of law, that if a witness was willfully and corruptly false in any one material statement, and -they were fully satisfied of that fact, they might properly regard such a witness unworthy of belief, and no credit ought to be given to his testimony in any one particular or respect, any further than his testimony was corroborated by other evidence in the case; and they…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, J.
The Court in this case instructed the jury, “ that it was a rule or maxim of law, that if a witness was willfully or corruptly false in any one material statement, and they were fully satisfied of that fact, they might properly regard such a witness unworthy of belief and no credit ought to be given to his testimony in any one particular or respect any further than he was corroborated by other evidence in the case,” &c.
The jury, it will be perceived, were peremptorily instructed, as matter of law, that in a certain contingency no credit should be given to a witness; that if they found one…
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