Mopsikov v. Cook
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of city of Portsmouth, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
*5821. Upon the trial of the ease the plaintiff was permitted over the objection of the defendant, to testify to the following conversation between himself' and his daughter of about nine years of age. The plaintiff testified “that his little girl said to him: ‘Father, what is this they say about me, they say I am a nigger.’ That he said to his little girl: ‘No,, darling, you are not, and they will be madé to prove it.’ ”
The admission of this testimony is the basis of one of the assignments of error.
Omitting…
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