Case Name: ALDRICH v. MARCELLUS
Court: Cuyahoga Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1888-01
Citations: 2 Ohio Cir. Dec. 287
Docket Number: 
Parties: ALDRICH v. MARCELLUS.
Judges: Baldwin, Caldwell and Upson, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 2
Pages: 287–287

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.