Sharmer v. McIntosh
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court of Cheyenne county. Heard below before Church, J. One who has a direct legal interest in the result of a cause in which the adverse party is administrator of a deceased person is not a competent witness therein.
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Appeal from the district court of Cheyenne county. Heard below before Church, J. One who has a direct legal interest in the result of a cause in which the adverse party is administrator of a deceased person is not a competent witness therein. (Code Civil Procedure, sec. 329; Ransom v. Sehmela, 13 Neb., 74; Wamsley v. Crook, 3 Neb., 344; Magenau v. Bell, 13 Neb., 248; Housel v. Oremer, 13 Neb., 298; Martin v. Seott, 12 Neb., 42; Rakes v. Brown, 34 Neb., 304; Kim-ball v. Kimball, 16 Mich., 211; Cook v. Stevenson, 30 Mich., 242; Mundy v. Foster, 31 Mich., 313; Van Wert v. Chidester, 31 Mich.,…
1Opinion of the Court
Irvine, C.
Sharmer brought his action in the district court of Cheyenne county, alleging that the defendant Frank B. Johnson and Samuel C. Morgan had been copartners, doing business as bankers under the name of the State Bank of Sidney, in the town of Sidney, and continued to conduct said business until June 27, 1889, when Morgan died intestate; that the defendant McIntosh was his administrator; that Johnson, since the death of Morgan, had refused to administer the affairs of the partnership and had at all times since Morgan’s death denied the existence of the partnership; that the plaintiff…
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