Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1814

Walker v. Leighton

Walker v. Leighton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided May 15, 1814
11 Mass. 140
Walker v. Leighton

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The evidence offered for the defendants was irrelative, and impertinent to the issue on trial; and evidence is as well to be rejected for its impertinence as for its incompetency (a)

Judgment according to the verdict.

Babbington on Set-off, 37.— Selw. N. P. 157, 8th ed. — Exrs. of Bourne vs. Thomson & Al.— Coxe's N. J. R. 2.

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