Osborne v. Seligman
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the City Court of the city of New York, entered on the verdict.of a jury, in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtGreenbaum, J.
The sum of $2,000 damages was awarded to the plaintiff in this action for an alleged assault and battery.
The only witnesses to the occurrence out of which this action arises were the plaintiff and the defendant, who flatly contradicted each other. The plaintiff testified that the defendant struck her and the defendant unequivocally denied this and asserted that he never in his life laid hands upon the' plaintiff.
Upon cross-examination of the plaintiff, the defendant’s counsel sought to impeach her character by asking questions which tended to show that she was a lewd and abandoned woman,…
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- People ex rel. Leonard v. CropseyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912