New York Supreme Court, 1809

McTavish, Frobisher v. Denning

New York Supreme Court · Decided July 1, 1809 · Spencer

1 Ant. N.P. Cas. 155

Opinion of the Court

Spencer, J.

The witness must answer the question proposed to him. The compromise was not a'matter confidential in its nature, but was made public by communication to the creditors. He is exempted from disclosing any confidential communications made to him as counsel in any cause then actually commenced or expected to be commenced. Yide Phillips’ Law of Ev. 192.

Hopkins and Badcliff, for plaintiffs.(1)

Pendleton, for defendant. '

Tide post, Mount v. Bogert, and the note to that case; also, Anshon’s Law Student, 213,

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