Case Name: MARSHALL v. RILEY et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1902-05
Citations: 78 N.Y.S. 827
Docket Number: 
Parties: MARSHALL v. RILEY et al.
Judges: Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and MacLEAN and GILDERSLEEVE, JJ.
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 78
Pages: 827–828

Head Matter:
(38 Misc. Rep. 770.)
MARSHALL v. RILEY et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May, 1902.)
1. Evidence — Conclusions—Drunkenness.
Testimony by a witness of occurrence as to tbe drunken condition of one of tbe parties thereto does not call for a conclusion requiring tbe witness to qualify.
■¶ 1. See Evidence, vol. 20, Cent. Dig. § 2244.
Appeal from municipal court, borough of Manhattan, Second district.
Action by Alonzo Marshall against James G. Riley and others. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants appeal.
Reversed.
Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and MacLEAN and GILDERSLEEVE, JJ.
F. L. Taylor, for appellants.
F. W. Fielding, for respondent.

Opinion:
FREEDMAN, P. J.
At the trial the' defendants endeavored to show by the testimony of two witnesses who had witnessed and described plaintiff's condition that at the time the plaintiff was ordered to leave the lighter as claimed by him, and at the time he voluntarily left defendants' employ, as claimed by defendants, he was drunk. It seems that all testimony upon this point was excluded upon the ground that it called for a conclusion, and that the witnesses should have been qualified. This was error within the rule as laid down in People v. Eastwood, 14 N. Y. 562; People v. Gaynor, 33 App. Div. 98, 53. N. Y. Supp. 86; Donoho v. Railroad Co., 30 Misc. Rep. 433, 62 N. Y. Supp. 523. The judgment must be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to appellants to abide the event.
Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, with costs to appellants-,, to abide event. All concur.