Walden v. Finch
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 284, to January Term 1871. This was an action on the case by Edward Walden and Christian F. Koehn, trading, &c., against Joseph S. Finch and John W. Painter, trading, &c. The suit was for the loss of 139 half-barrels of plaintiffs’ whiskey which had been destroyed by the falling of a storehouse of defendants in which the whiskey had been stored; the plaintiffs alleging that the house had been negligently built by defendants.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 284, to January Term 1871. This was an action on the case by Edward Walden and Christian F. Koehn, trading, &c., against Joseph S. Finch and John W. Painter, trading, &c. The suit was for the loss of 139 half-barrels of plaintiffs’ whiskey which had been destroyed by the falling of a storehouse of defendants in which the whiskey had been stored; the plaintiffs alleging that the house had been negligently built by defendants. The plaintiffs gave evidence that they had bought of the defendants whiskey which continued in the defendants’ bonded…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 13th 1872, by
Agnew, J.
— There are but two questions in this record which need to be noticed. The first, upon the admission of testimony to contradict Kemble and Kerr, without having called the attention of these witnesses to the conversations intended to be proved, is an unsettled question in this state, as may be seen in the diverse decisions cited in the argument. The practice has arisen out of regard to the witness himself to enable him to explain any seeming discrepancy in his statements. Yet it must necessarily have its just boundary, or…
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