Eason v. Chapman
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of trespass, brought by Chapman against Eason and others, in the Williamson Circuit Court, for the supposed killing of a stable horse. The defendants below pleaded the general issue. There was a trial before Parrish, Judge, and a jury, at September term, 1857, of the Franklin Circuit Court, on a change of venue from Williamson, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff below, of five hundred dollars.
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This was an action of trespass, brought by Chapman against Eason and others, in the Williamson Circuit Court, for the supposed killing of a stable horse. The defendants below pleaded the general issue. There was a trial before Parrish, Judge, and a jury, at September term, 1857, of the Franklin Circuit Court, on a change of venue from Williamson, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff below, of five hundred dollars. In the progress of the trial, one Charles Starix was introduced as a witness, by the defendants, who stated that he knew Caroline Riddle, (a witness who had been…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
In order to impeach the plaintiff’s witnesses, the defendants called witnesses who stated that they were acquainted with the characters of the plaintiff’s witnesses for truthfulness in the neighborhood in which they lived, and that such characters were bad. The defendants’ counsel then asked the witnesses if, from their knowledge of such general character for truthfulness, they would believe them upon oath. This question was objected to and the objection sustained by the court, to which an exception was taken, and this ruling is now assigned for error.
It is a general rule, no doubt, that the…
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