Case ID: del_34/html/0074-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Rodney, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Willard G. Burton, trustee of Rovers Petroleum Inc., v. Natural Gas & Petroleum Corporation.
    
      
      (January 31, 1927.)
    Rice and Rodney, J. J., sitting.
    
      Daniel O. Hastings, Clarence A. Southerland, and Ogden K. Shannon (of the Tarrant County, Texas, Bar) for plaintiff.
    
      George N. Davis, Robert S. Sloan (of the New York Bar), and Jeff Davis (of the Arkansas Bar) for defendant.
    Superior Court for New Castle County,
    January Term, 1927.
    No. 27,
    September Term, 1925.
   Rodney, J.:

We sustain the objection to the prior statement of the witness. We are of the opinion that in this state the same foundation for the introduction of prior statements showing hostility, or ill feeling, on the part of a witness must be laid as are uniformly laid as a basis for the introduction of prior contradictory statements. State v. Deputy, 3 Penn. 19, 50 A. 176; Jones’ Blue Book on Ev. (1914), vol. 5, § 850; 2 Wigmore on Ev., §§ 953, 964, 1025; Eagan v. Lentz, 156 Cal. 681, 105 P. 951, 20 Ann. Cas. 221, and note, and cases there cited. See note to State v. Smith, 16 A. L. R. 984.

Note—See State v. Grant, 3 W. W. Harr. (33 Del.) 195, 133 A. 790; State v. Casper, 3 W. W. Harr. (33 Del.) 432, 138 A. 633; Bove v. State, 3 W. W. Harr. (33 Del.) 229, 134 A. 630.