Brooks v. Kay

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Dead Man’s Statute will not exclude ... testimony where the party asserting the statute ‘opens the door’ by offering testimony otherwise excludible[.]”
• \Some evidence is required that the grantor actually reposed trust in the grantee in the handling of her affairs.\
• \The rule prohibits any interested person from testifying concerning conversations or transactions with the decedent if the testimony could affect his or her interest.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).