Lee v. Schmidt

By the Court.†

Daly, F. J. The complaint in the action

was for wrongfully detaining a silk dress of the plaintiff of the value of $45, which the defendant answered by a general denial. Upon the issue the parties went to trial, and all that appears by the return is, that the plaintiff called a witness, who testified that she had seen the dress upon the person of the plaintiff; that she had bought several dresses; and that in *184her judgment the dress was worth $45. Before she testified to the value of the dress, the defendant objected to her competency to testify upon the question of value, which…