Soucier v. Odell Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
’ Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the defendant. Transferred from the September term, 1912, of the superior court by Chamberlin, J., upon the plaintiff’s exceptions to the admission of evidence.
1Opinion of the CourtPeaslee, J.
The plaintiff was injured while operating a buzz-planer in the defendant’s mill. Evidence of his careless habit in operating the machine was admitted as a part of the cross-examination of a witness produced by the plaintiff. The plaintiff objected and excepted upon the ground that it would appear later, by the testimony of two witnesses, just what he was doing when the accident occurred. The court refused to exclude the testimony on this ground, saying that neither the court nor the opposing counsel could anticipate what the other evidence might be.
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