Jackson v. Litch
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
October 22d 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: No. 81, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of assumpsit brought, November 15th 1866, by Thomas K. Litch against Jake Hill, A. Jackson, A. F. Baum and John Carrier, partners, trading as Jackson, Carrier & Co. The declaration was for half the price of a bracket dam on the North Pork creek, in Jefferson county, which it…
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October 22d 1869. Before Thompson, C. J., Read, Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson county: No. 81, to October and November Term 1869. This was an action of assumpsit brought, November 15th 1866, by Thomas K. Litch against Jake Hill, A. Jackson, A. F. Baum and John Carrier, partners, trading as Jackson, Carrier & Co. The declaration was for half the price of a bracket dam on the North Pork creek, in Jefferson county, which it had been agreed should be built by the plaintiff at the joint expense of plaintiff and defendants. The declaration…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Sharswood, J.
The first assignment of error is that the court permitted two witnesses, called by the defendants below, who are the plaintiffs in error, to prove that they respectively had authority from the plaintiff to receive certain sums of money for* which they had given receipts, to be asked in cross-examination what the money was received for. It is certainly well settled in this state that cross-examination must be confined to the matters which have been stated in the examination in chief. A party will not be permitted to lead out new matter,…
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