Lee v. Winkles

Mrs. Winkles sued J. W. Lee and three others on a note. The defense was payment. There was a verdict for plaintiff, and defendants’ motion for a new trial being overruled, they excepted.

1. One ground of the motion was, “Because the court ruled out, on objection by counsel.for plaintiff, the following evidence of W. B. Lee, one of the defendants and a witness for the defendants: ‘He [meaning his father, J. W. Lee] told me to carry it on to town and turn Mr. Winkles over the other,’ [meaning the other two bales belonging to J. W. Lee]1.” This evidence was offered by defendants to show that J.…