Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 2, 1868 (Newbold & Wife v. Mead)

The opinion of the court was delivered, by

Asnew, J.

One of the grounds of the offer, contained in the first bill of exception, is, that it was to rebut the evidence given by the plaintiff tending to show that the old dam was not a safe one. The plaintiff objected to this, because the injury he complained of was caused by the new dam, in 1866, and the offer was irrelevant.