Marbach v. F. A. North Co.
Marbach v. F. A. North Co.
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The due bills upon which this action is based contained provisions against negotiability and could only be paid by an allowance or credit on the leasing or purchasing of a piano by Jacob Marbach at regular selling prices. The appellee alleging a compliance with the terms of the due bill, and the refusal of the appellant to honor them, brings this action to recover their amount. The act of the appellee in having Seegar bargain for the piano was not a violation of the provisions of the due bill that Marbach was to purchase it; nor would it have been a violation of that provision if the sale had been made directly to Seegar, and the due bills and cash presented to the appellant in payment thereof; as the
Tbe assignment complaining of the admission of' certain evidence cannot be sustained. Tbe defendant asked appellee’s daughter, qu cross-examination, her reason for doing a certain act; tbe answer involved a statement as to certain information that her father gave her. Tbe question was to test tbe good faith of tbe witness and her entire reason was material as long as tbe defendant persisted in bis question. Tbe girl was acting under tbe direction of her father, by virtue of tbe information be gave her; that was her reason for doing tbe act. Moreover, while tbe answer developed a statement made to tbe witness by her father later on in tbe testimony, she states tbis fact as being within her own knowledge, giving instances as to- tbe time of its separate occurrences. Tbe case was submitted by the learned trial
The assignments of error are overruled, and the judgment is affirmed.
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