Case ID: dc_4/html/0458-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "But the Court,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Corporation of Washington v. Fowler.
    A witness is not incompetent because he feels himself bound in honor to indemnify the party who calls him as a witness, in case the judgment should be against him ; if he has made no promise to indemnify him, nor is bound in law so to do.
    Debt on the auctioneer’s bond of Moses Poor ; the defendant being his surety. Judgment having been rendered against Mr. Poor and the defendant having given him a release, the defendant called him as a witness, and upon cross examination he answered that he felt bound in honor to indemnify the defendant if judgment should go against him, but had not promised or in any manner bound himself so to do. Whereupon the plaintiff’s counsel objected, and contended that the testimony of Mr. Poor should be rejected as incompetent on account of that honorable feeling.
   But the Court,

(nem. con.) upon the authority in 4 Stark. 746, overruled the objection. See also Corporation of Washington v. Webb, at November term, 1834, S. P. (not reported.)