Gallagher v. Goldstein

How courts have described this case

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• affirming exclusion of private marital conversation when only non-spouse party objected to its admission
• “We have consistently ruled that the statute renders spouses incompetent to testify as to the contents of their private conversations with their marital partners.”
• “Testimony as to the contents of a private conversation is inadmissible even if both spouses desire the evidence to be admitted”
• “In this historical context, the statutory disqualification as to evidence of private conversations between spouses may be viewed as a statutory preservation of a remnant of an outdated common law concept.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).