Case Name: Mills v. Griswold
Court: Connecticut Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1792-05
Citations: 1 Root 383
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mills v. Griswold.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 383–383

Head Matter:
Mills v. Griswold.
Voluntary communications of a party under engagements of secrecy, are to be testified, by a witness except those made to an attorney wlio is under oath to keep his client’s secrets.
Aotiok of assumpsit upon a promise of marriage. Issue to the jury.
Question — Whether a witness is obliged to disclose upon his oath what the defendant had told him in confidence, and upon a promise to keep it secret.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The distinction is, where the communications are necessary in the course of business, as of a client to his attorney, he may not disclose them, but where the communications are voluntary, as in the present case, his oath obliges The witness to tell the whole truth.