Schuyler v. Nottingham

On the trial plaintiff called twenty-one witnesses. With the exception of the witness Jones, none of them swore to any facts which were not as compatible with innocence as with guilt. With only those facts to meet, defendant could well have argued and the jury might well have found that the relationship between defendant and Schuyler was one merely of business and incidental social intercourse.

Jones testified: (a) To an incident which he said occurred at a certain meeting of directors on December 21, 1921. The innuendo was that defendant and Schuyler, by prearrangement, went to Rochester…