Hughes v. Etheridge

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The court did not err in refusing to permit the defendant to testify that he had had no transactions whatever with the testator. That Mrs. Foor, the testator, was a nonresident and that a number of other persons, who had borrowed from the testator through Stinson as her agent, had in each instance dealt solely with the agent, did not establish that the defendant himself had had no transactions with her. The defendant could have testified, and did testify, to transactions between him and such agent, the agent presumably being still in life, but he could not…