Alexander v. Gossett

Citations

• 29 S.C. 421
• 7 S.E. 814
• 1888 S.C. LEXIS 156

Syllabus

<p>1. On an issue of disputed boundary between A and B, a witness was improperly permitted to testify that on a survey of adjoining land purchased by witness from C, that C ran a certain line as the boundary between A and B, these parties, A and B, not being present, and it not being shown that C was dead nor that he ran the dividing line originally, nor that he was a surveyor or chain-carrier.</p> <p>2. The witness might testify to acts done by the surveyor in his presence, but not to matters which would be facts only by the aid of hearsay evidence explanatory of acts otherwise unintelligible.</p>