Empire Life Insurance v. Einstein
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action on insurance policy; from city court of Camilla—R. L. Shipp, judge pro hac vice. May 4, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtRussell, J.
There.are two questions raised by the record: (1) whether the court improperly prevented the defendant from eliciting from a witness evidence which might have caused a different result; and (2), if the court did not err in that respect, whether the verdict which the court directed "was demanded by the evidence submitted. In the motion for a new trial the defendant complains that the court permitted the witness to determine for himself whether the answers to certain questions which were propounded to him would' tend to criminate him. As to this we think the court ruled correctly. In a note to…
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