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Show Telephone Conversations as Evidence. In a recent case it was admitted that a telephone conversation had taken tak-en place between a representative of the plaintiff and the defendant, but it was claimed on the part of the defendant-appellant that each party to the conversation could testify only to what he eald and could not testify to what he heard through the telephone, presumably upon the ground that he might have misunderstood what the other party said. In declaring this objection untenable the appellate division divi-sion In the second department pertinently perti-nently said that such a rule would admit ad-mit fragments of conversation, perhaps per-haps meaningless and probably unln-structlve. unln-structlve. "The conversation, that la, what one Raid and the other replied, la the only intelligible and helpful evidence" evi-dence" Bench and Bar. |