| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 810 pages
...either for or against the wife." By the Code of New York, " No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action." .In White v. Sta/ord, 38 Barbour, 420, the plaintiff called his wife as a witness. The court said .... | |
| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...testimony. Page 246. Amend § 351, to read as follows: § 351. No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. Page 246. Amend § 352, to read as follows: § 352. The last section shall not apply to a party to... | |
| William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...Procedure in the State of New York, however, provides that no person ottered as a wituess, shall he excluded, by reason of his interest in the event of the action. The last section shall not apply to a party to the action, nor to any person for whose immediate benefit... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1851 - 530 pages
...general application of the preceding section, such a witness, being a party to the action, might be excluded "by reason of his interest in the event of the action." This, then, I understand to be the intent and import of the 397th section of the Code. Any party to... | |
| Law - 1851 - 518 pages
...are in accordance with our own law, except that by s. 398 " no person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action," except he be a party to the action or a person for whose immediate benefit it is prosecuted or defended,... | |
| New York (State), Member of the New-York Bar - Civil procedure - 1851 - 410 pages
...[351.] No witness to be excluded by reason of interest. — No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. §399. [352.] (Amended.) — To whom last section inapplicable. — The last section shall not apply... | |
| Henry Whittaker - Civil procedure - 1852 - 900 pages
...398 and 399, in relation to witnesses in general : § 398. No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. § 399. The last section shall not apply to a party to the action, nor to any person for whose immediate... | |
| New York (State) - Civil procedure - 1852 - 606 pages
...suits. No witness to beexduded by reason of interest. — No person offered as a witness, shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action. The words " interest in the event of the action" in section 398, do not mean " IB interest in any event... | |
| Civil procedure - 1852 - 446 pages
...general application of the preceding section, such a witness, being a party to the action, might be excluded " by reason of his interest in the event of the action." This, then, I understand to be the intent and import of the 397th section of the code. Any party to... | |
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