Niles v. Brackett
This text of 15 Mass. 377 (Niles v. Brackett) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
A new trial is granted; it appearing that the interest of the witness was not known to the plaintiff * until after the trial, and that it was known to the defendant,'who produced him. In a cause so nearly oalanced as this appears to have been, a little evidence is sufficient tu turn the scale,
An objection to the competency of witnesses, discovered after the trial, is not of itself a sufficient ground for a new trial, although it may have some weight with the court where the party applying appears to have merits.— Turner vs. Pearte, 1 D. & E. 717. —2 Arch. C. P 264.
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