
    BENNET, ET AL. v. KESARTY.
    Assumpsit — evidence—fact in opposition to declarations.
    Where proof is admitted of the declarations of the other party as to a material fact if no other person’s rights have been affected by it. it is competent. for such other party to show the fact different from his declaration."
    Courts should decide on truth if within reach, not on falsehood.
    Assumpsit on a building contract. Plea, non assumpsit.
    The plaintiff called a witness who testified, that he heard the defendant declare he had let a part of the job to another. The defendant’s counsel, on cross examination, asked the witness to state if, in fact, the job was ever let by the defendant.
    
      Whittlesey, for the plaintiff, objected,
    that the defendant cotild not falsify his own declarations.
    
      Giddings contra.
   BY THE COURT.

The plaintiff has called out the statement of the defendant as to a particular fact which he considers material, and hence will ask to find that fact proven. The defendant now offers to show that, in truth, the fact was not as he declared. The evidence offered goes direct to the fact itself, but is. said to be incompetent, because it falsifies what the defendant said about it. Is this a reason for withholding the truth ? No person has acquired or lost anything by the statement of the defendant— no one’s interest has been in the slightest degree affected by it. Why, then, are we to shut out Hip truth and decide upon falsehood ? We do not see. T'Ue may be asked.  