Moffitt v. Burgess
Moffitt v. Burgess
Opinion of the Court
Taking the whole of Ilis Honor’s charge together, and applying it to the facts stated by the witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Kersey, it is correct in principle, and is fully sustained by the case of Moss, Bell & Co. v. Peoples, 6 Jones 140. If the defendant, with his horse and buggy, carried the
The testimony which was offered on the part of the defendant as to the declaration of the debtor, that “ he intended to get him into a scrape,” was properly rejected on the ground of its immateriality. The debtor did get him into a scrape, and it was a matter of no consequence on the trial of the issue whether he did it designedly or not.
Judgment affirmed.
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- HUGH T. MOFFITT v. JOHN O. BURGESS
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