The jury was not bound to disregard all the testimony of the plaintiff, unless they believed not only that her testimony on a material issue
In the case last quoted the United States Supreme / Court, says: “Where a party testified to a fact in respect ; of which he can not be presumed liable to a mistake, j as in relation to the country of bis birth, or his being ! in a vessel on a particular voyage, or living in a par- j ticular place, if the fact turn out otherwise, it is ex- ) tremely difficult to exempt him ¡from the charge of < deliberate falsehood ; and courts of justice under such \ circumstances are bound upon principles of law and morality and justice to apply the maxim, “falsus in j uno, falsus in omnibus.” \
These remarks not only lay down the true rule, but / give suggestive instances of its application. Strictly judged by it the plaintiff here might still claim credibility as a witness on all the issues except the one which the jury found against her. On the issues as to the loan and re-payment of fifteen hundred dollars, the j jury disbelieved her positive statement that the money had never been repaid. The defendant swore that it had j been, and so did the witness Morrison. Prom the cir- ) cumstance that wherever plaintiff and defendant were j in conflict on the other issues; the jury found against i defendant, it is safe to assume that the finding against plaintiff as to the fifteen hundred dollars was based ; upon Morrison’s testimony.
But was the fact as to which she and Morrison disagreed one “in respect of which she could not be presumed liable to a mistake”? Clearly it was not.
It was upon the question as to the re-payment of a loan made by the plaintiff to the defendant of fifteen hundred dollars ; plaintiff swearing that she loaned it without security, and that it was never re-paid her ; defendant swearing that it was borrowed by him for
The motion for new trial must be denied.
