Licensed Retail Liquor Dealers Ass'n v. Denton
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Licensed Retail Liquor Dealers Ass'n v. Denton
Opinion of the Court
Action on promissory notes made 'by the defendant to the plaintiff. There was a verdict directed for the plaintiff and the defendant appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.
“What were these notes given in payment for at the time you signed them ?”
“For what purpose was the money to be used which these notes were to be given for?”
“What representations did the committee, officers or agents of the association make to you at the time you signed these notes?” .
The first two invited conclusions and not facts or conversations. It does not appear that there was a committee, as assumed in the third question, nor that the plaintiff knew the officers and agents of the association. The contrary, if anything, appears. No foundation was laid. There was no effective offer to prove. The court is not strict in its holdings as to conclusions nor as to the necessity of offers of proof, but error must affirmatively appear to justify a reversal and none does.
Order affirmed.
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- LICENSED RETAIL LIQUOR DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF MINNEAPOLIS v. L. R. DENTON
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