Reed v. Baldwin

Richard Reed and his wife Harriet made and executed their joint and several promissory note to Baldwin. The latter died, and his executors brought suit on the note. The suit was resisted by both husband and wife, the latter filing a plea in which she alleged “that the debt sued on was the debt of her husband Richard Reed, and not her debt, and that she was in no way liable or responsible to the payee in .said note.” On the trial of the case the husband was offered as a witness to prove the truth of this plea. His testimony was objected to, and was excluded by the court, on the ground that he…