Norwood & Butterfield Co. v. Andrews
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Action begun in a justice court by appellee against the Norwood & Butterfield Co., a corporation, and C. S. Butter-field for $200, balance claimed to be due plaintiff on a contract for a reward.
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From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Action begun in a justice court by appellee against the Norwood & Butterfield Co., a corporation, and C. S. Butter-field for $200, balance claimed to be due plaintiff on a contract for a reward. Plaintiff recovered judgment for the amount claimed against both defendants, and they appealed to the circuit court, where the suit was dismissed as to the defendant, C. S. Butterfield, and there was a trial on the plea of general denial by the other defendant. The appellant is a corporation created under the laws of the state of…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
We entertain no doubt of the right of the defendant corporation to incur liability for a reward promised under the circumstances shown in evidence. Railroad Co. v. Cheatham, 85 Ala., 292; Ricord v. Central, etc., 15 Nev., 167; Amer. Ex. Co. v. Patterson, 73 Ind., 430.
But the judgment recovered must be reversed for the error of the court in refusing to permit evidence of the bad character of the plaintiff for veracity in the neighborhood where he had lived many years, and from which he had removed two years before. 1 Rice on Ev., 630; Sleeper v. Van *646Middlesworth, 4 Denio, 431; Rathbun v. Ross,…
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