Woodard v. McGee

BROCK, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs contend by numerous exceptions that the trial court committed error in rulings on the admissibility of evidence concerning conversations between the deceased and the plaintiffs with respect to what the deceased had promised them.

*489G.S. 8-51, referred to as “The Dead Man’s Statute,” is applicable to this contention. In this action, both plaintiffs are “interested” parties; both are seeking a pecuniary interest from the estate of McGee. Both plaintiffs sought to testify to a personal transaction with the deceased, in hopes of establishing a claim against the…