Bride v. Clark
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon a promissory note for $665.34, dated September 6, 1890, payable six months after date to the plaintiff, and signed by the defendant. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The first exception must be overruled, because there is nothing to show that the book offered as evidence oE the law of the State of New York, and rejected, was competent. It did not purport to be published under the authority of the government of that State, and there was no evidence that it was commonly admitted and read as evidence in their courts. See Pub. Sts. c. 169, § 71.
The other exception is to the refusal to give a ruling requested. The request included several different elements, one of which *131was “ that gambling, and such gambling as is described here, is illegal by the laws of New…
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