Drewry v. Hopper

Citations

• 77 Miss. 744

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses. Estate of decedent. Code 1893; 'i 1740.</p> <p>The heath of one of the parties to a suit, after the taking of the depositions of both, will not warrant, when the suit is revived, the use of the decedent's and the suppression of the living party’s deposition. The case, if within the letter, is without the spirit, of code 1892, § 1740, providing that “a person shall not testify ,as a witness to establish his own claim or defense against the estate of a deceased person,” etc.</p>