[273] Taylor on Evidence, sec. 50, Ed. 1872.
[274] Best on Evidence, sec. 574.
[275] State v. Wood, 53 N. H. 484; Masons v. Fuller, 45 Vt. 29; New Orleans, etc., Rw. v. Allbretton, 38 Miss. 247; Re Toomes, 54 Cal. 515.
[276] Fairchild v. Bascomb, 35 Vt. 410; Polk v. State, 36 Ark. 117; Roberts v. Johnson, 58 N. Y. 613.
[277] Hathaway v. Nat. Life Ins. Co., 48 Vt. 335, 351; Fairchild v. Bascomb, supra.
[278] Castner v. Sliker, 33 N. J. (L.) 97; State v. Reddick, 7 Kan. 143; State v. Henkle, 6 Ia. 380; State v. Cook, 17 Kan. 391.
[279] Horton v. Green, 64 N. C. 64.
[280] Emerson v. Lowell Gas Light Co., 6 Allen, 146.
[281] Heald v. Wing, 5 Me. 392.
[282] Harris v. Panama R. R. Co., 3 Bosw. (N. Y.), 77; Fairchild v. Bascomb, 35 Vt. 398.