Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_2/html/0287-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ABSTRACTS OF DECISIONS.
    IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS.
    [Cuyahoga Circuit Court,
    January Term, 1888.]
    Baldwin, Caldwell and Upson, JJ.
    
       ALDRICH v. MARCELLUS.
    Contradictory Declarations to Impeach Witness.
    Deposition in other suit, can not be used to contradict witness unless inquiry is first made.
    Appeal — Motion for a new trial.
    Darius Cadwell, for plaintiff.
    E. Sowers, for defendant.
    
      
       The judgment in this case was affirmed by the supreme court without report, March 15 1892.
    
   Held: That a witness, not a party to the suit may not be contradicted by statements made in a deposition given by him in another suit in which the parties in the suit were not parties, and in reference to which deposition no inquiry was made of the witness.