Beever v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• wife, sued with husband on promissory note, precluded from testifying that she signed note at her husband’s request
• “The evident purpose of this provision of the statute is to keep sacred and secret the confidential relations of husband and wife.”
• “[W]hen a third person competent to be a witness is present, then the courts will inquire into the transaction just the same as if no confidential relation existed between husband and wife.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).