Ellison v. Aiken

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The general grounds of the motion for a new trial are not argued or insisted upon in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error. But we have carefully examined the record, and the evidence is sufficient to support the verdict.

In special ground 1 of the motion, complaint is made on the refusal of the judge to allow the plaintiff to testify, over the objection of the defendant that she was an incompetent witness to testify as to conversations with the deceased, that she had an agreement with the deceased whereby they agreed that they would be husband…