Cram v. Cram
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for two [promissory notes. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury at-the December Term, 1859, — Redeield, Ch. J., presiding.
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Trover for two [promissory notes. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury at-the December Term, 1859, — Redeield, Ch. J., presiding. It was conceded by the defendant that the plaintiff’s intestate, Hannah Kendall, a short time before her decease, held the notes described in the declaration ; that they came into the defendant’s possession and were demanded of him by the plaintiff, as administrator, before the commencement of this suit, and that the defendant refused to deliver them to the plaintiff, claiming them as his own. The defendant introduced evidence tending to prove that on the…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
Exceptions were taken by the plaintiff on the trial of this case in the county court in two particulars, which are now assigned for error, — one being in respect to the admission of the opinions of witnesses who were not professional men as to the capacity of the plaintiff’s intestate, who was the mother of both the plaintiff and the defendant, to make a contract at the time of the making of the defendant’s contract with her, which was the principal matter contested on the trial; and the other being in respect to the exclusion of the wife of the plaintiff as a witness, she having been called…
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