Keys & McKnight v. Baldwin

Citations

• 33 Tex. 666

Syllabus

<p>1. When evidence was erroneously excluded, which, if admitted, would render the verdict ol the jury contrary to the evidence, a new trial should have been granted on the motion of the party cast; and this court will hold the overruling of the motion to be error.</p> <p>2. Plaintiff sued for a wagon or its value, claiming to have bought it irom 0., who was since deceased. Defendants purchased it from the widow of 0., since his decease, and offered her testimony to prove that the pretended purchase by the plaintiff was never consummated. Hs!d, that she was a competent witness, and it was error to exclude her testimony on the ground of interest.</p>