King v. Wicks
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the court of common pleas of Geauga county. The original action was trespass before a justice of the peace, brought by Wicks as plaintiff (now defendant in error), against King, defendant below (now plaintiff in error). The cause was removed to the common pleas, and tried to a jury at May term, 1851, when the plaintiff below recovered judgment.
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Error to the court of common pleas of Geauga county. The original action was trespass before a justice of the peace, brought by Wicks as plaintiff (now defendant in error), against King, defendant below (now plaintiff in error). The cause was removed to the common pleas, and tried to a jury at May term, 1851, when the plaintiff below recovered judgment. The bill of exceptions taken at said May term shows that the plaintiff below, on trial, called as a witness, William R. Tolls, who gave evidence for the plaintiff material to the issue. “ After the plaintiff had closed his testimony, and…
1Opinion of the CourtRannet, J.
From the bill of exceptions taken upon the trial, it appears that the defendant in error called a man by the name of Tolls, as a witness, who gave evidence material to the issue. The plaintiff in error then proposed to show, by another witness, that Tolls had made statements out of court different from his testimony in court, for the purpose of contradicting and impeaching him. This evidence was objected to, upon the ground that the witness Tolls had not been inquired of whether he had not made such statements as were proposed to bo proved to the other witness, or whether he had said anything…
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