Fuller v. Valiquette
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case, tinder Y. S. 4507, for damages to the plaintiff from an injury received by her husband while intoxicated by liquor furnished by the defendant. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1897, Rutland County, Munson, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, J.
Three questions of evidence are presented by the record.(1) The testimony of the witness Bacon, to show that he shaved Fuller one evening and that so far as he knew, he, Fuller, was all right, meaning that he was not intoxicated, was admitted under exception. The objection to it was “that it was not shown that he, Fuller, was there that night,’’that is, as we construe the objection, the night of the accident to Fuller. If the testimony did not relate to the night of the accident it was immaterial and should have been excluded. The witness could not state that he shaved Fuller *503the night of the…
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