Vol. 6 includes index-digest, v. 1-6.

Vol. 6 includes index-digest, v. 1-6.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...to answer others, he said 'that the land at Bay Ridge, Kings county, New York, referred to in my testimony, and concerning which I have been questioned, is held by me by an absolute title in fee simple; that I do not hold any part of or interest in it for the benefit of said Andrew Brown, or of any one representing him; that I have never sold or conveyed any part of the land at Bay Ridge originally acquired by me, or any land at Bay Ridge now held by me, at the request of said Andrew Brown; that I have never accounted or been accountable, and am not now accountable, directly or indirectly, to him or to any one representing him for any proceeds of any of such land sold, or which may be sold, and that said Andrew Brown has no interest, legal or equitable, in any such land or in any proceeds of sale of the same or any part thereof. And I respectfully submit that 1 am not subject to other or further examination in respect of any such matters, for that the same are wholly immaterial and irrelevant to the subject-matters of inquiry in this proceeding.' "It is not necessary to question, and we imply no doubt of, the good faith of the witness in making this statement; but it cannot be accepted as relieving him from 'other or further examination.' It is, in substance, but an expression of his understanding that the facts which he declines to reveal would, if revealed, appear to be immaterial, and to this opinion of his, though not even evidential, he asks that there shall be conceded determinative force. Whether the title which he holds is an absolute title, in which Andrew Brown has no interest, it is the function of the court to decide, and that it may do so intelligently it is requisite that it should be fully informed of all the connected...