
    JOSEPH PRATT, Respondent, v. LUTHER T. NORTON, Appellant.
    
      Witness — impeachment of— statement signed by him—original must be produced.
    
    To impeach a witness, by showing that he has made some statement inconsistent with the contents of a document signed by him, the original document must be produced. 
    
    Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the verdict of a jury.
    
      Rowley & Johnston, for the appellant.
    Holmes, Thompson & Spencer, for the respondent.
    
      
       Newcomb v. Griswold, 24 N. Y., 298; Gaffney v. The People, 50 id., 416, 425.
    
   Opinion by Mullin, P. J.

Judgment reversed, and new trial ordered, costs to abide event.  