Grunster v. Jessup

Citations

• 196 Pa. 548

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Competency of witness — Party dead — Stockholder in hank.</p> <p>In an action by an assignee for creditors of a bank on a bond conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the vice president of the bank, where the principal and two of the sureties are dead at the time of the trial, a director who had entered into an agreement with the depositors to pay them in full and to take an assignment of their claims, and and who had joined with the other directors in borrowing a large amount of money on their joint notes, one of which was still unpaid, is not a competent witness for the plaintiff.</p>