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3 Colo. 291

Barker v. Hamilton

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided April 15, 1877

Supreme Court of Colorado · decided 1877-04-15

This was an action of replevin brought by Barker, the plaintiff in error, as trustee of Hattie Mix, an infant, against Hamilton, the defendant in error. - The declaration was in the cepit and detinet pleas; non cepit, non detinet, property in defendant, and property in a third party.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1915

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Decided 1877-04-15

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Wells, J.

¶1The court below permitted the defendant, for the purpose of impeaching the trust asserted by the plaintiff, to give in evidence the admissions of the infant beneficiary, implied from her conduct. In this there was certainly error. The infant was incapable of an admission which should affect her own rights ; much less can her admissions be used against a third person, who assumes to stand as her trustee.

¶2This error is reviewable here, even though we should hold the exception, which the plaintiff reserved to the finding, insufficient to take the case out of the doctrine of Phelps v. Spruance, 1 Col. 414, and even if we examine the whole record •— as for this purpose, according to the case of Patton v. The Coen & Ten Broeke Co., we may do, it is impossible *293to say with confidence that the testimony so improperly received has not affected the result.

¶3Judgment reversed with costs, and cause remanded for a new trial.

¶4Reversed.

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