Norwood & Butterfield Co. v. Andrews

Citations

• 71 Miss. 641

Syllabus

<p>1. Corporation. Reward. Implied liability for.</p> <p>A private corporation, through 'its officers or agents, may incur iiability for a reward offered for the arrest of persons unlawfully interfering with its property or business.</p> <p>2. Witness. Character for truth. Former residence.</p> <p>It is competent to show the bad character of a witness for truth in a neighborhood where he had lived for many years, and from which he had removed two years before.</p> <p>3. Instruction. Aiming at witness. General character.</p> <p>Although a party is a witness in his own behalf, testimony having been offered to impeach his character, it is error to refuse, as aimed at him, an instruction to the effect that the jury is the judge of the credibility of witnesses, and may, if the evidence justifies it, disregard the testimony of a witness, and may also consider the interest oí a witness and his character for truth, if shown, in determining the weight to be given his testimony.</p>