Wilkie v. Wilkie

BECTON, Judge.

By Assignments of Error Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, defendants argue that the admission of plaintiff’s testimony regarding transactions and communications with the decedent violated G.S. 8-51, the dead man’s statute. G.S. 8-51 precludes an interested witness from testifying at trial about personal transactions or communications between the witness and a deceased person when either the witness or the person he, is testifying against derives his interest or title from, through or under the deceased person.

In ruling on the admissibility of plaintiff’s testimony concerning…