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6 Misc. 535

Birnbaum v. Lord

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided January 15, 1894

City of New York Municipal Court · decided 1894-01-15

<p>Minutes oí a former trial which were in the possession and control of a1, witness, and admitted to be correct, are admissible to impeach the testimony of the witness as to what was testified to on such former trial.</p>

Relies on Seaman v. . Koehler

Decided 1894-01-15

McCarthy, J.

¶1This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury, awarding the plaintiff $250 damages for personal injuries caused by negligence, and from the order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial.

¶2This involves a question of fact, and while the evidence is not very strong, yet it is sufficient to require the question of negligence to be -submitted to the jury.

¶3There was sufficient evidence as to the ownership of wagon ■and agency of driver to have forced defendants to contradict same. Seaman v. Koehler, 122 N. Y. 646.

¶4The evidence of Stone was admissible and relevant, as also the minutes of the former trial, which were offered for the purpose of impeaching the witness Tompkins, who had just ■sworn that on the last trial the boy Birnbaum had sworn to a ■certain state of facts.

¶5These minutes were in the possession and control of the witness Tompkins, and admitted to be correct. They were proper, then, to prove that the boy did not swear to the facts as testified to by Tompkins.

¶6The case was properly submitted to the jury, and we find no error.

¶7Judgment is, therefore, affirmed, with costs.

¶8Hewburger, J., concurs.

¶9.Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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