Kern v. Continental Bank

JUSTICE, PJ.

During the course of the trial, counsel for plaintiff sought to introduce in evidence, certain sections of the General Code; that is to say, §§710-173-175, 8147 and 8149. The defendant objected to the introduction of these statutes, and the trial court sustained the objections; and, as we see it, very properly so. The trial court took judicial notice of these sections and it was neither necessary nor proper for plaintiff to prove them.

On cross-examination of C. P. Palmer, the -cashier of the defendant bank, counsel for plaintiff inquired of him if he did not know, at the time he…