Hoxie v. . Allen
New York Court of Appeals
This was an action to recover the value of the Plaintiff’s services in procuring the release, at Washington, of the steamship S. S. Lewis, which had been condemned for a violation of the revenue laws. The employment was not denied in the pleadings, nor the rendering of service. The question was upon the value, simply. The only question made in the Appellant’s points is in relation to the evidence given by E. K. Collins.
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This was an action to recover the value of the Plaintiff’s services in procuring the release, at Washington, of the steamship S. S. Lewis, which had been condemned for a violation of the revenue laws. The employment was not denied in the pleadings, nor the rendering of service. The question was upon the value, simply. The only question made in the Appellant’s points is in relation to the evidence given by E. K. Collins. Mr. Collins testified that he had been in Washington, with respect to getting through claims against the Government, in which he was interested; that he had had contracts with…
1Opinion of the Court
Hunt, Ch.J.
The objection to the evidence of Collins seems to have been to its character, and not to his competency to give it. If the objection had been made at the trial, that he had not sufficient knowledge to speak upon the subject,' it might have been obviated.
The competency of the evidence, in its nature, was a fair subject of general objection, and to that the objection must be deemed to have applied.
That this is a fair construction of the objection, is evident from the circumstance that the objection, and in the same form, was also made to the testimony of Mr. Briggs, whose capacity to…
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