Martin v. Wright

A bill of exceptions which we find in the record, presents the only question to be determined in this case. On the trial below, the defendant was called upon by the plaintiff to answer verbal interrogatories touching certain advances of money, alleged to have been made to him in New Orleans by the petitioner. These interrogatories having been answered without objection, the defendant’s counsel proceeded Jo interrogate him on all the other matters in controversy. To this the plaintiff’s counsel objected, on the ground that defendant could not be made a general witness in his own case, and…