Kern v. Cooper

Citations

• 106 Miss. 895
• 64 So. 838

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses. Estates of decedents. Competency. Code 1906, section 1917.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 1917, prohibiting a witness from testifying to establish his own claim against the estate of a deceased person, where plaintiff brought suit in replevin against the son of deceased for certain property, in whose possession it had been since deceased’s death, it was error to permit plaintiff to testify that the property had been given to them by the deceased.</p>