Betterton v. Adams

The only point presented for our consideration by the appellant, is as to the correctness of the ruling of the lower court as shown by a bill of exceptions. It appears that on the trial upon the merits “ the defendant offered to put upon the stand as a witness J. II. McCormack, and to place before him the commercial books of the plaintiff and defendant, for the purpose of contradicting by tho said witness and the entries in said books, the report of the umpire hereto*335fore homologated in this case, and to show that the results reached thereby were unfounded in fact and in law.

But the counsel of…