Bell v. Felt
Supreme Court of Georgia
Possessory warrant. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. July 22,1903. The evidence is conflicting, but, taking that excluded and admitted most favorably for the prevailing party, it appears that.
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Possessory warrant. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. July 22,1903. The evidence is conflicting, but, taking that excluded and admitted most favorably for the prevailing party, it appears that. Felt was agent for the Indiana Fruit Company, and as such sold a pair of mules to Bell; that some time afterwards Bell desired to exchange the samé for a pair of gray mules belonging to the company ; that Felt expressed himself as willing to make the exchange if the bay mules were in as good condition as when they were sold, and, having to be absent, notified Arnold, overseer and agent of the…
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
(after stating the foregoing facts.) The assignment of error on the judge’s refusal to permit Arnold, a witness for the defendant, to answer the questions propounded can not be considered, because it nowhere appears what his testimony would have been, nor whether the same would have been material or helpful. But this objection does not cover the assignment of error on the court’s refusal to permit Felt’s counsel to propound certain appropriate questions to Bell, the opposite party. The rule requiring a statement as to what the answer-would have been does not apply to those asked of a hostile…
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