German v. German
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WILLIAMSON. This cause was heard at a Special Term, November, 1867, before Chancellor Horace H. HarrisoN. Complainants and respondents appealed to this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvin Hawkins, J.
The questions presented for our consideration arise mainly upon exceptions to the report of the Commissioner.
Before proceeding to notice these exceptions, we will notice an objection taken to the deposition of Mrs. German, the widow of the testator.
She proves various statements of the testator, and it is argued that she is an incompetent witness to prove the statements and conversations of her deceased husband.
We think the proposition correct upon familiar rules of evidence; but the objection comes too late.
It is said in argument the reading of this deposition *182Avas excepted to in the court…
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