O'Connor v. International Railway Co.

Where a witness for an adverse party has made a written statement containing matter inconsistent with his testimony, such written statement, after its genuineness has been established, either by the admission of the witness or other legal proof, may be put in evidence in its entirety as a part of the case of the party offering it, unless objection is made to specific portions of the statement as irrelevant or incompetent, in which case the irrelevant or incompetent portions should be excluded and only the balance received and read into the record. (Larkin v. Nassau Elec. R. R. Co., 205 N. Y.…