Brantly v. Mayo

Blandford, Justice.

The parties are the same in both of these cases, and they involve the same question. Upon the trial of each, Brantly was offered as a witness for the purpose of .testifying that his wife rented the premises from Zach. Mayo, who was dead, and that he himself did not rent the premises from C. M. Mayo, the plaintiff in the court below. His wife was also offered as a witness to the same effect. The court excluded this testimony from the consideration of the j ury. In one of the cases a part of the testimony was admitted, but the whole of it was afterwards excluded by the court…