Rauh v. Scholl

Citations

• 19 Wash. 30
• 52 P. 332
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 310

Syllabus

<p>JUDGES — POWERS OP SUCCESSORS —SETTLEMENT OP STATEMENT OP PACTS — RENDITION OP JUDGMENT — EVIDENCE — TRANSACTIONS WITH DECEDENT.</p> <p>The settlement of a statement of facts by a judge after his term of office has expired is not ground for striking the statement, when it has also been certified by the successor of the judge who tried the cause.</p> <p>Where, after verdict, a motion for a new trial has been interposed, the rendition of judgment at the time of deciding such motion is timely.</p> <p>Where the term of a trial judge has expired judgment may properly be rendered by the succeeding judge.</p> <p>A party to a transaction is not barred from testifying in regard thereto by the death of one of the adverse parties, when there is no attempt to prove any conversation or transaction with the deceased and the testimony is confined to transactions with one of the adverse parties still living.</p>