Hjerstedt v. Fuller

Claimant filed a claim for $160 on account of professional services rendered as a professional nurse to the deceased. The claim was supported solely by the testimony of the claimant as to the extent and nature of the services and their value. The court was of the opinion that the claimant was incompetent to testify as to the nature of the services and the amount of services rendered because they constituted a transaction with a deceased person from whom she was claiming; that under *446sec. 325.16, Stats, (formerly sec. 4069), she was not a competent witness.

It has been held in at least four…