Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1855 (Gilmer v. City Council of Montgomery)

CHILTON, O.J.

-1. The bill of exceptions states, that upon the trial in the court below, the defendant proposed to ask a witness on the slanci "if there were not other ravines in the city which had increased in size for• the last twenty years in as great a proportion as this ravine had increased ;" that the court overruled the plaintiffs' objection to the ques*669tion, and allowed the witness to