Starr v. Hunt

The appellants, who were the defendants below, on the trial offered one of themselves as a witness, the record informs us, “ to prove the various allegations of their joint and separate answers, and disprove those of the plaintiffs’ complaint, but the court held that there was no issue raised by the pleadings upon which his testimony could bo received, and thereupon excluded him.” This ruling is questioned here.

The suit was upon two promissory notes, and an account stated. One of the notes was made by the defendants, Alonzo Starr, John Pees and Mansfield Starr, the other, by Starr, Pees…