 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 768 pages
...the statute.— Code of 1876, § 3058. Under the statute, there can be no exclusion of any witness because he is a party to, or interested in the issue tried, with this exception, that neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...States, there shall bo no exclusion of any witness on account of color." Mr. Buckalew moved to add, " or because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." This was agreed to; and Mr. Sumner's amendment, thus amended, was adopted : Yeas 22 ; Nays 16 ; and... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Law - 1864 - 466 pages
...they were ordered. Mr. Buckalew (Dem.) of Pennsylvania moved to add to Mr. Sumner's amendment, " or because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Mr. Sumner was in favor of the proposition taken by itself, but did not wish it put upon his amendment.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. It was concurred in by the following vote : YKAS — Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 870 pages
...proviso. To this Mr. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, offered the following amendment : Nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. The entire amendment was as follows : , That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. It was concurred in by the following vote : YEAS — Mesera. Anthony, Brown, Chandler, Clark, Conness.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...States, there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color." Mr. Buckalew moved to add, " or because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." This was agreed to; and Mr. Sumner's amendment, thus amended, was adopted: Yeas 22; Nays 16; and the... | |
 | Commercial law - 1868 - 988 pages
...United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried. No. 478. — JULY 4, 18C4. CHAP. CCXUX. — An Act further to regulate the Carriage of Passengers in... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...be no exclusion of any witness on account of color. Mr. Huckalew moved to add: Nor in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried. Which was agreed to; and the amendment as amended was agreed to — yeas 22, aye 16, as follows: YEAS... | |
 | Frederick Charles Brightly - Law - 1869 - 680 pages
...there shall be no exclusion of any witness on 13 atat. 881. amount Of color; nor, in civil actions, Kay & Brother"; Brightly Frederick Charles" Frederick Ch (6) s March ISM { l. 7. In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judg18... | |
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Statutes, which provides that "in the courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried... 
