Crabtree v. Hagenbaugh
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of assumpsit, commenced in the Edgar Circuit Court, by John Crabtree against William Hagenbaugh, to recover damages for breach of contract. The declaration contains nine special counts, and the usual common counts.
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This was an action of assumpsit, commenced in the Edgar Circuit Court, by John Crabtree against William Hagenbaugh, to recover damages for breach of contract. The declaration contains nine special counts, and the usual common counts. The special counts allege that the plaintiff, about the 1st of May, 1856, rented of the defendant a certain pasture containing about six hundred acres, (some of the counts say from about the middle of May, 1856, to the 1st of January, 1857, and other counts say from about the 15th of May, 1856, to the 1st of February, 1857,) for the use of plaintiff’s cattle, and…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
On the trial below,witnesses were asked, “if they were acquainted with the general ^reputation of Albin for truth and veracity among his neighbors, and those with whom he associated.” The impeaching witnesses had stated that they were acquainted with witness Albin, before this question was propounded. The court refused to permit the witnesses to answer the question, unless they first stated that they had heard a majority of all his neighbors speak of his character for truth and veracity. The question, as asked, conforms to the rule laid down by writers on evidence, and is free from all…
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