Bell v. Samuels

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Collins, J.

The errors complained of in this case arose on the trial of an appeal from a District Court. The judgment of the Common Pleas in favor of the defendant is brought up by certiorari. Under a rule of this court the judges have certified, among other things, as follows:

“We refused to allow Henry F. Bell, who was sworn as a witness for the plaintiff, to testify to conversations between himself and his father, the intestate, in regard to the judgment of. Bell against Creighton, on the ground that such testimony would be illegal; and we did not…