Crooks v. Bunn

Citations

• 136 Pa. 368
• 26 W.N.C. 527
• 20 A. 529
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1035

Syllabus

<p>Self-serving and consonant declarations of a party to an action, whether verbal or by letter, and though made ante litem motam, are inadmissible, unless when a part of the res gesto, or offered to rebut evidence of a want of credibility or of a recent fabrication: Packer v. Gonsalus, 1 S. & R. 526; Henderson v. Jones, 10 S. & R. 322; Craig v. Craig, 5 R. 91; McKee v. Jones, 6 Pa. 425, distinguished.</p>