In Re Estate of Coleman
Supreme Court of Iowa
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
I. The case was tried to the court without jury and under a stipulation that permitted the court to reserve rulings on objections to testimony. No such rulings were thereafter requested by either party nor were any made by the court. Appellant’s only complaint of this is that “the court erred in failing to overrule objections of claimant "to testimony offered by the administrator.”
Only two instances of this character appear in the record. In each, claimant (appellee) urged the incompetence of appellant’s witness (decedent’s son) under tbe “dead man statute.” The failure to rule surely did not…
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