28 Iowa 558 | Iowa | 1870
For the purpose of showing the credit or weight due the testimony or opinion of the witness touching plaintiff’s reputation for honesty, the court might properly enough have received the evidence. It was not bound to do so, however. The defendant could not claim as a strict legal right to have responses in reference to specific transactions, or to call out what the witness had said in relation to this or that collateral act in plaintiff’s life. Such inquiries only go legitimately to affect the credit of the witness, and the extent to which they may be pressed must, of course, rest largely in the discretion of the trial court. In this case we cannot say that the discretion was abused. Having thus noticed very briefly all the questions made in the case, it is ordered that the judgment below stand
Affirmed.