Anderson v. Cranmer
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of tbe circuit court of Obio county, rendered on tbe 7th day of February 1876, in a cause in chancery, in said court then pending, wherein Mary Anderson, as next friend of John Anderson and Lavinia Anderson, was plaintiff, and Gibson L. Cranmer, Alexander Carson and Charles Watkins were defendants, allowed upon the petition of the said plaintiff below. Hon. T. Melvin, Judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree below.
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Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of tbe circuit court of Obio county, rendered on tbe 7th day of February 1876, in a cause in chancery, in said court then pending, wherein Mary Anderson, as next friend of John Anderson and Lavinia Anderson, was plaintiff, and Gibson L. Cranmer, Alexander Carson and Charles Watkins were defendants, allowed upon the petition of the said plaintiff below. Hon. T. Melvin, Judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree below. Johnson, Judge, who delivered the opinion of the Court, furnishes the following statement of the case: This is an appeal…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
The first question presented is: Whether the defendants, Cranmer and Carson, were competent witnesses, to speak *575as to the actions, or conversation of the grantor, or to give their opinions of his sanity at the time the deed was' executed, founded upon such actions or conversations at the time of the execution of said deed, or at any other time. Section 23 of chapter 130 of the Code provides, that:
“ A party to a civil action, suit or proceeding may be examined as a witness in his own behalf, or in behalf of any other party in the same manner, and subject to the same rules of examination as any…
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