Estate of Nale

The controlling issues are (1) whether the court erred in admitting evidence as to conversations with a deceased person, and (2) whether the statute of limitations, sec. 893.21 (5), 2 Stats., barred all but two years of the claim for personal services.

Sec. 885.16, Stats., commonly known as the dead man’s statute, provides, insofar as pertinent here, as follows:

“Transactions with deceased or insane persons. No party or person in his own behalf or interest, . . . shall be examined as a witness in respect to any transaction or communication by him personally with a deceased . . . person . . .…