| 1896 - 2118 páginas
...provided (so far as affects the present case) "that in actions by * * * administrators • • • neither party shall be allowed to testify against...other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the * * * intestate." This section is the whole law of the matter, and no state statute can, for this court,... | |
| 1907 - 2136 páginas
...administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may he rendered for or against them, neither party shall he allowed to testify against the other. as to any transaction...with, or statement by. the testator, intestate, or wunl. unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the... | |
| 1904 - 1108 páginas
...action because he Is a party to or Interested in the issue to be tried: provided, that In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians in which judgment may be rendered for or against tliem neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with or statement... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 836 páginas
...BURNSTINE. 1. Sect. 868 of the Reviged Statutes of the United States, which declares " that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians,...party, or required to testify thereto by the court," applies to the courts of the District of Columbia as fully as to the Circuit and District Courts of... | |
| William Edward Miller - 1881 - 728 páginas
...civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried: Provided, That in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians,...party, or required to testify thereto by the court. In all other respects, the laws of the State in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision... | |
| 1881 - 556 páginas
...representative can testify against his adversary as to any transaction with or statement by the deceased, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party or required to testify thereto by the court, governs as to the admission of the testimony of such a party. If not before that time, from and after... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 822 páginas
...affecting the competency of parties as witnesses in actions by or against personal representatives or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, is "locally inapplicable" to this District. But such a position cannot be maintained consistently with... | |
| Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1882 - 902 páginas
...civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried: Provided, That in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians,...party, or required to testify thereto by the court. In all other respects, the laws of the state in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1302 páginas
...civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried ; Provided, I'hat, in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians,...party, or required to testify thereto by the court. In all otter respects the laws of the State in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision... | |
| 1882 - 1284 páginas
...the issue tried : Proridtd, That in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardian*, iu which judgment may be rendered for or against them,...testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testily thereto by the court. In all otlur respects, the laws of the State in which the court is held... | |
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