Harper v. Sutherland

1. Upon the trial of a suit to recover the amount of an alleged indebtedness arising under a contract, where the defendant in his testimony denied the contract, it was not harmful to the plaintiffs, although it was a conclusion of the witness, to permit the defendant to testify that he did not owe the plaintiffs "a dime,” but that the plaintiffs were indebted to him, where the facts tending to show non-liability were fully stated by the defendant in his testimony.

2. In a suit to recover the amount of an alleged indebtedness to a partnership, the execution of a note by a member of the firm, to…