Price v. Whisnant

Tbe defendants assign as error tbe admission of plaintiff’s testimony, over objection, to tbe effect that tbe defendant A. H. McRary, wbo is now non compos mentis, sent for him “quite a few years ago” to meet him at a designated place; that be did so and McRary bad Charles Rarlow (now deceased), tbe County Surveyor, to run certain lines, one of wbieb is now in dispute.

We tbink tbis evidence coming from tbe plaintiff was inadmissible. It was evidence concerning a transaction between tbe witness and tbe defendant, wbo is non compos mentis. Sucb testimony is inhibited by tbe provisions of Gr.S.…