Titus v. . Sumner
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the sixth judicial district, denying a motion for a new trial. This is an action to recover damages for charging the plaintiff, in May, 1864, with poisoning his own daughter to death; and in August of the same year with being a robber, a murderer and a thief. The defendant interposed a general denial.
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Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the sixth judicial district, denying a motion for a new trial. This is an action to recover damages for charging the plaintiff, in May, 1864, with poisoning his own daughter to death; and in August of the same year with being a robber, a murderer and a thief. The defendant interposed a general denial. The action was tried at the Delaware circuit in February, 1866. On the trial, during the cross-examination of one of the plaintiff’s witnesses (who had testified that he had heard the defendant say that the plaintiff had…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] It is enough to say that the refusal at circuit to permit the witness on his cross-examination to testify whether he believed any of the statements made by the defendant about the plaintiff's daughter was harmless, inasmuch as the witness during the same cross-examination testified that he did not believe she was poisoned. The offer to prove by the same witness during that cross-examination that the plaintiff's reputation was not affected by these statements was…
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