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39 Mo. 519

Attwell v. Lynch

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided January 15, 1867

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1867-01-15

<p>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.</p>

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1909

4 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1867-01-15

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Wagner, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The 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 *520conversations 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.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

The other judges concur.
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