Brown v. Caylor

1. This is a claim case. The wife of the defendant in fi. fa., whose trustee in bankruptcy was the claimant, was permitted to testify, over objection, that the lot of land called the “home place,” on which she claimed to have borrowed money (she testifying also that her money had been used in buying the stock of goods levied on), had recently been sold by the trustee in bankruptcy. The objection was that there was better evidence of the sale. The court stated that he would let the fact that it had been sold remain in. If there were any .relevancy in showing that there had been a mere…