Setchel v. Keigwin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by the administrators of the estate of Denison P. Coon to recover the amount of an account charged against the defendant on the books of the intestate ; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County, and tried to the jury before Crump, J. Coon, the intestate, bad kept a grocery store in Norwich, where the defendant also resided, and after his death the account was found by his administrators upon Ms books, in his own bandwriting, and a transcript of it in…
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Action by the administrators of the estate of Denison P. Coon to recover the amount of an account charged against the defendant on the books of the intestate ; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County, and tried to the jury before Crump, J. Coon, the intestate, bad kept a grocery store in Norwich, where the defendant also resided, and after his death the account was found by his administrators upon Ms books, in his own bandwriting, and a transcript of it in the same bandwriting on separate sheets of paper, the whole amount charged being $ 116.27. The administrators had no…
1Opinion of the Court
Andrews, G. J.
Each of the errors assigned in this case is a portion of the charge of the judge to the jury. It is claimed that each was improper and erroneous.
The charge consisted wholly of a discussion and comments upon the evidence which was before the jury. The account books of the plaintiffs’ decedent had been laid in and were evidently in the presence of the judge and the jury at the time he was speaking. The case turned upon their correctness, and in reference to these books and to the evidence which had been offered by the parties the judge used the language which is complained of. “…
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