Stone v. Paradise Park Homes, Inc.

ARNOLD, Judge.

Defendants’ Appeal

We shall consider four assignments of error made by defendants.

I

Defendants argue that the trial court erred in admitting the testimony of the plaintiffs concerning conversations and transactions they had with the deceased original defendant, J. Sharpe Williams. The North Carolina dead man’s statute, G.S. 8-51, provides in pertinent part:

“Upon the trial of an action, or the hearing upon the merits of a special proceeding, a party or a person interested in the event, or a person from, through or under whom such a party or interested person derives his interest or…