Case ID: tyl_1/html/0004-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stephen Pearl, Sheriff, Appellant, against Ebenezer Allen, Appellee.
    Comparison of bands, or concession of a party on a former trial when not attached to the record,cannot be given in evidence while , the subscribing witness to a contract is within process.
    CASE. On a receipt for property attached on mesne process. General issue. Trial per pais.
    
    The appellant offered a receipt in evidence, purporting to have been signed by the appellee, and offered to prove the execution of the receipt,
    First. By comparison of hand-writings.
    Secondly. By the concession of the party at the lower Court.
    Objected, That the subscribing witness is within process of the Court, and ought to be produced.
   By the Court.

Comparison of hand-writings cannot'be admitted in evidence, or the concession of the party at the lower Court, whilst the subscribing witness resides within the process of the Court. The defendant must not in this way be deprived of cross-examining the subscribing witness to the contract. The concession of a party on a former trial, when not attached to the record, must be considered as a concession for that trial only.