President of Mechanics Bank v. Woodward
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover $1,100 claimed to have been loaned to the defendant on two occasions through the agency of his wife, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Gceorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover $1,100 claimed to have been loaned to the defendant on two occasions through the agency of his wife, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Gceorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The following facts, among others, appeared in the finding : The defendant, early in 1898, constituted his wife his agent to invest $1,650 for him in the New York stock market. On September 28th, 1898, she offered a note for $800 purporting to be signed…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The trial court erred in permitting the defendant to make evidence for himself, by showing his communication with his own attorneys as to a collateral matter in the course of another suit relating to a different transaction. Nor was his testimony admissible, that the two notes found among his wife’s papers, which were the subject of that communication, were forgeries.
The plaintiff had endeavored to prove its case against the defendant by circumstantial evidence. It relied on his course of conduct with reference to certain pecuniary transactions with winch his wife was connected, and in which…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hoyt v. City of DanburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
- Builders Supply Co. v. CoxSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
3Cited by4 opinions
- President, Directors & Co. of the Mechanics Bank v. WoodwardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
- Hurlburt v. BussemeySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
- Tappan v. KnoxSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1932
- Barry v. MillerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926