Rooney v. Minor
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover to recover the value of a promissory note. Trial by jury, September Term, 1883, Royce, Ch. J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court was delivered by
Taet, J.
I. The defendant claimed title to the note in question by virtue of a gift from the plaintiff’s intestate, and offered to show by his own testimony that he came into possession of it in January, 1882, and the manner in which it was placed among the papers of Mrs. Minor. As we understand the case, and it has been so treated by the counsel in argument, the offer was to show such facts by detailing the conversation of the defendant with Mrs. Minor. This was clearly incompetent. Such evidence is made inadmissible by R. L. s. 1003, and is not within the…
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