Good v. Dyer

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

The questions raised by the assignments of error will be disposed of in their order, as stated below.

1. Was there harmful error in the action of the court in refusing to permit the defendant (after he had already testified, in substance, that if the note was a-debt binding on the estate of the decedent, it and the legacies and other charges on the estate would more than consume it, leaving nothing to pass under the residuary clause of the will), to testify more specifically on this subject, by stating…