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Attwell v. Lynch

Thos. J. Attwell v. James Lynch

Attwell v. Lynch, 39 Mo. 519 (1867)
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Court
Supreme Court of Missouri · State Highest Courts
Decided
January 15, 1867
Judges
Other, Wagner
Citations
39 Mo. 519
Headnotes
Practice^- Evidence — Depositions.—Depositions presenting only hearsay testimony may be suppressed by the court before the trial. Before the copy of a deed can be admitted in evidence, the execution and existence of the original and its loss must first he shown.

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Opinion of the Court — Wagner

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Wagner, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The errors assigned by the appellant are the suppressing parts of certain depositions, the rejection of certain evidence, and the giving of improper instructions for the respondent. The depositions suppressed purported to give merely the *520 conversations between third parties, and attempted to make evidence out of memorandums, when the witness did not pretend to speak of their own knowledge. The evidence rejected was the copy of a deed, and no°effort was made to account for the original, nor was there anything to show that it had ever been executed. We see no error in the ruling of the court in excluding evidence or suppressing depositions. The instructions are unobjectionable ; those given for both parties state the law correctly and fairly, and are entirely consistent.

Judgment affirmed.

The other judges concur.

How later courts describe this case

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1891: 11893: 11902: 11909: 118912026peak 1891 · 1

Relies on it most ⓘ

  1. Hope v. Blair105 Mo. 85 (1891)
  2. Snyder v. Charleston & Southside Bridge Co.63 S.E. 616 (W. Va. 1909)
  3. Zollman v. Tarr93 Mo. App. 234 (1902)
  4. Hunt v. Selleck24 S.W. 213 (Mo. 1893)

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  1. Snyder v. Charleston & Southside Bridge Co.63 S.E. 616 (W. Va. 1909)
  2. Zollman v. Tarr93 Mo. App. 234 (1902)
  3. Hunt v. Selleck24 S.W. 213 (Mo. 1893)
  4. Hope v. Blair105 Mo. 85 (1891)

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