Knowles v. Crampton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for an injury through the negligence of the defendant; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of New Haven, and tried to the jury before Deming, J. Upon the trial it was admitted that the parties to the suit were living in the town of Madison, in this state, and that on the 25th day of July, 1886, they had been to church and Sunday school, and that the accident occurred upon the public highway as they were returning from church, about one o’clock in the…
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Action for an injury through the negligence of the defendant; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of New Haven, and tried to the jury before Deming, J. Upon the trial it was admitted that the parties to the suit were living in the town of Madison, in this state, and that on the 25th day of July, 1886, they had been to church and Sunday school, and that the accident occurred upon the public highway as they were returning from church, about one o’clock in the afternoon. The Knowles team, in which the plaintiff and her brother, Herbert Knowles, were riding, started from the church…
1Opinion of the Court
Carpenter, J.,
The plaintiff claimed, and offered evidence in support of her claim, that two or three of her ribs were broken. The physicians, who testified in her behalf, located the ribs. The defendant denied the claim, and further contended that at the place described there were no ribs. To support his claim on this point he offered in evidence a section of a human body. To this evidence the plaintiff objected and the court excluded it.
We see no necessity for evidence of this character. It *342was not in itself evidence, although it might serve to illustrate, and might perhaps assist the jury…
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