Huckaby v. Jenkins

* Corpus Juris-Cyc References: Appeal and Error, 4CJ, section 2869, p. 898, n. 92. This is another of the many cases where unfortunately nearly every witness, who could give the court the full facts and all the details thereof, is disqualified under section 1917, Code of 1906. This record bears many indications that, except for the disqualification of the witnesses who knew the true facts, the testimony would have disclosed a good gift causa mortis — not one inter vivos.

It being known in advance that by operation of the statute aforesaid it would not be possible to have before him all the…