Estate of Dowie

Citations

• 135 Pa. 210
• 19 A. 936
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1173

Syllabus

<p>1. In proceedings in the Orphans’ Court, to enforce performance of a decedent’s contract to convey lands, evidence that one of two administrators of the deceased vendor, upon statements of the vendee to her but without personal knowledge, admitted that a jiayment of purchase money had been made to the vendor in his lifetime, is insufficient to bind the estate.</p> <p>2. Under § 2 (d), act of May 23, 1887, P. L. 158, it is not the right of a third party, but the right of the client only, to object to the testimony of an attorney at law called to testify to confidential communications between himself and his client, although at the time of the offer the client is dead.</p>