Davis v. Gaskins

1. In an action by one seeking to set aside her deed and recover the land conveyed thereby, because of her minority at the time it was executed, it was not error to permit her to testify, on cross-examination, that her husband had paid for a certain town lot and built a house thereon, and she did not know whether she or her husband had sold it, what she received therefor, and whethér the proceeds were paid to her husband or to herself, over objection of her counsel that the deed to the house and lot was the highest evidence; the purpose of the testimony being to support the defendant’s plea…