Case Name: John Murphy, Respondent, v. Peterson Cipher Code Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1952-03-14
Citations: 303 N.Y. 912
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Murphy, Respondent, v. Peterson Cipher Code Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 303
Pages: 912–914

Head Matter:
John Murphy, Respondent, v. Peterson Cipher Code Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendants.
Argued January 24, 1952;
decided March 14, 1952.
John P. Carson, Daniel Miner and Paul D. Carrigg for appellant.
Rubin Baron for respondent.

Opinion:
Judgments reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event, upon the ground that the jury was not clearly instructed that the written statement by the plaintiff's witness Bowman could not serve as affirmative evidence of substantive facts stated therein but only, as a means of impeachment, to prove that he had made a prior statement inconsistent with his testimony upon the trial. (Matter of Roge v. Valentine, 280 N. Y. 268, 276-277; Civ. Prac. Act, § 343-a.) No opinion.
Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Dye, Fuld and Froessel, JJ.