Adriance v. Arnot
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Laio Commissioner's Court of St. Louis. This was a trial of an issue between the plaintiff and the garnishee in an attachment suit, commenced before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the law commissioner.
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Appeal from Laio Commissioner's Court of St. Louis. This was a trial of an issue between the plaintiff and the garnishee in an attachment suit, commenced before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the law commissioner. Upon the trial in that court, the witness John P. Camp, called by the plaintiff to prove the indebtedness of the garnishee to the defendant in the attachment, was inquired of as to his own transactions and indebtedness to the garnishee, on the hypothesis that while pretending to act as agent of the defendant in the attachment, he was in reality acting for himself, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBates, Judge
This cause was heretofore submitted to the court, and an opinion prepared but not delivered; and the parties now consent that the opinion of the late judges may be filed and judgment entered in accordance with it. Therefore, the judgment of the court below is affirmed,
all the judges concurring. Napton, Judge.
We do not see any reason for refusing to allow the questions put to the witness, John P. Camp, to be answered. When a question of fraud is before a jury, and the witness is competent, the apparent irrelevancy of testimony is an unsafe ground for its exclusion. This is especially true when…
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