Legal Opinion

Kelley v. Highfield

Oregon Supreme Court

Decided June 14, 1887Published

Appeal from Multnomah County.

1Opinion

On petition for rehearing.

Strahan, J.

In disposing of a question of practice which was presented in this case, it is said in the prevailing opinion : “The exception taken to the refusal of the court to allow the witness, Fred Meyer, to answer the question propounded to him is not available. The witness did not answer, and it nowhere appears from the bill of exceptions what fact appellant expected to elicit by the question. To make this exception available, the bill of exceptions ought to have gone further and shown what it *293was expected to prove by the answer to this question. And the same…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Toledo & Wabash Railway Co. v. GoddardIndiana Supreme Court · 1865
  2. State v. StaleySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1869
  3. Bake v. SmileyIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  4. Mitchell v. ChambersIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
  5. Lewis v. LewisIndiana Supreme Court · 1868

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