New Jersey Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

*197The opinion of the court was delivered by

G-ummere, J.

On the trial of this cause, certain officers and directors of the defendant corporation were offered as witnesses in its behalf, and they were permitted, against objection, to testify concerning transactions with and statements by the testator, represented by the plaintiff in error. The ground upon which the objection was rested, when taken at the trial, and which is urged before this court, is that this' testimony was incompetent by force of the proviso of the supplement to the “Act concerning evidence,” approved February 25th, 1880 (Rev.…