Stewart v. Hall
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 55 — PETITION OBDINABY — APPEAL PROM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT. ;1. What a witness says must be pertinent, or believed so by him, in order to be privileged.
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Case 55 — PETITION OBDINABY — APPEAL PROM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT. ;1. What a witness says must be pertinent, or believed so by him, in order to be privileged. (White v. Nichols, 3 How., 266White v. Carroll, 42 N. Y., 161; Barnes v. McOrate, 32 Maine, 442; Hawkins v. Summer, 13 Wis., 193; McLaughlin v. Cowley, 127 Mass., 316; Story v. Wallace, 60 111., 51; Morgan v. Booth,. 13 Bush, 480; Eorbes v. Johnston, 11 B. Mon., 51; Thom v. Blanchard, 5 Johns., 523; Elam v. Badger, 23 111., 498; Gilbert'v. People, 1 Denio, 41; Odgers on Libel and Slander, side pages 266, 268, 269; B. v. Lord Abbington,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HOLT
delivered the opinion oe the court.
Tlie property of tlie Jeffersonville and Fifteenth. Street Christian Church, in Louisville, having been, sold for the payment of certain liens, there remained after their payment a considerable fund, which was claimed by each of the two parties then existing by reason of a division in the church. An action was brought in the Louisville Chancery Court of the style of Smith, &c., v. Hagerman, &c., to-settle the right to it. The prime • cause of the ■ *377division, was the election of the appellant, W. W.. Stewart, to an eldership in the chnrch, and his.…
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