Gilpin v. Gilpin
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Superior Court of Denver. This was an action by Ex-Gov. William Gilpin, plaintiff below, against his wife, formerly Mrs. Julia P. Dickerson. The parties were married in 1874. At the time of the marriage plaintiff was a bachelor, about fifty-nine years of age, and defendant a widow, about thirty-eight years of age, with four children,— one boy, about eight years old, named Sidney, and three girls, aged about four, six and ten years, respectively.
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Error to Superior Court of Denver. This was an action by Ex-Gov. William Gilpin, plaintiff below, against his wife, formerly Mrs. Julia P. Dickerson. The parties were married in 1874. At the time of the marriage plaintiff was a bachelor, about fifty-nine years of age, and defendant a widow, about thirty-eight years of age, with four children,— one boy, about eight years old, named Sidney, and three girls, aged about four, six and ten years, respectively. By this marriage there are three children, two of them twins, Willie and Marie,- born in 1875, and the third, Louis, born in 1877. The…
1Opinion
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
2Per curiam
It is now contended by plaintiff’s counsel that it was not error to refuse to allow defendant to answer the question: “Did you say, ‘Run, Sidney; he is armed?’” The elementary authorities are uniform to the effect that such a question is perfectly legitimate at the stage of the examination at which it was propounded. The defendant was entitled to testify to everything material which was said and done by each and every party to the transaction under consideration as she remembered it. Having done this, she was also entitled to explain or contradict any language of…
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- Brown v. WeightmanMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
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