Griswold v. . Hart
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 7, 1911, reversing a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The defendant Fred C. Hart was a competent witness under section 829 of the Code.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 7, 1911, reversing a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a verdict and granting a new trial. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The defendant Fred C. Hart was a competent witness under section 829 of the Code. He was interested in the event, hut he did not testify to a personal transaction or communication between himself and the deceased. (Simmons v. Sisson, 26 N. Y. 264; O’Brien v. Weiler, 140 N. Y. 281; Hutton v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, Ch. J.
The action was brought to recover two certificates of deposit, one for a thousand dollars and the other for five hundred dollars, and a deposit book in the Mechanics Society, a savings bank, all of which instruments were in the name of the plaintiff’s intestate, but in the possession of the defendant’s intestate, who was alive and testified on the trial in his own behalf, but died pending this appeal. There was no indorsement or written assignment of the securities. The defendant’s intestate had married a daughter of the plaintiff’s intestate. She died intestate without issue…
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