Hirschfelder v. Mitchell

Mitchell, tbe plaintiff below, and promisee in tbe instrument sued, being under cross-examination as a witness, was asked by the defendant’s counsel, to whom tbe instrument sued on belonged, and answered that it belonged to himself and his father. “ His attorney objected to the question and moved to exclude tbe answer. Tbe court sustained tbe objection to tbe question and excluded it; and tbe defendant excepted to tbe decision of tbe court excluding tbe question of tbe plaintiff,” (should it not be, of tbe defendant?) Tbe recital seems to-be particular in setting forth that tbe question only…