Supreme Court of the United States January 18, 1871 (Tappan v. Beardsley)

Mr. Justice MILLER

delivered the opiuion of the court.

In the admission of evidence we are of opinion that the court committed an error that must have contributed very largely to swell the amount of the verdict, which, without such testimony, was perhaps unusually and unjustifiably large, and might possibly have been for the defendant.