Floyd v. Wallace
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint, in Burke Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, at the May Term, 1859. Andrew Eloyd brought suit in Burke Superior Court, against Simeon Wallace, as administrator of Isaiah Sapp-, deceased, to recover a sum of money alleged to be due to Eloyd, from Sapp in his lifetime, for one hundred and thirty-three thousand feet of timber, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per thousand feet.
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Complaint, in Burke Superior Court. Tried before Judge Holt, at the May Term, 1859. Andrew Eloyd brought suit in Burke Superior Court, against Simeon Wallace, as administrator of Isaiah Sapp-, deceased, to recover a sum of money alleged to be due to Eloyd, from Sapp in his lifetime, for one hundred and thirty-three thousand feet of timber, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per thousand feet. On the trial of the case in the Court below, the following testimony was adduced, to wit: Evidence for the Plaintiff. William B. Hargroves testified: That in .the year 1854, as the authorized agent of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court. —
Ryon, J.,
delivering the opinion.
1. The object of the questions propounded to the witness, *692Hargroves, by counsel for defendant, the objections to which form the first and second grounds of the motion for new trial, was to elicit facts that would show the bias or interest of the witness against the defendant, or in favor of the plaintiff, and thus to disqualify or discredit the witness before the jury; for this purpose, great latitude ought to be allowed by the Court, especially as, after everything is out, it is for the jury to believe the witness or not, as they may be…
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