Van Horn v. Swezey

Three principal issues are raised on this appeal: whether the court erred in permitting the plaintiff as the owner of two diamond rings to testify to their value, the denial of the defendants’ motion for a mistrial, and claimed error in portions of the charge as given.

Two radically variant and divergent versions of the events and circumstances which befell the plaintiff’s diamond rings were given by the witnesses produced at the trial. The plaintiff introduced evidence in support of her claim that she had turned her rings over to the defendant Jack G. Swezey for the purpose of procuring an…