Strause v. Braunreuter

Citations

• 4 Pa. Super. 263
• 1897 Pa. Super. LEXIS 115

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Act of 1887 — Incompetent loilness — Interest or policy of the law.</p> <p>No interest or policy of the law makes any person an incompetent witness in any civil case or proceeding unless he is shown to come within one of the specified exceptions of the Act of May 23, 1887, P. L. 158.</p> <p>Evidence — Exception under clause (e) of act of 1887.</p> <p>Where the estate of a decedent may be interested in the question being tried but not in the immediate result of the suit there is lacking one of the essentials necessary to bring the case within the exception designated by clause (e) of the act of 1887.</p> <p>Evidence — Competency of widow as to transactions of husband.</p> <p>The wife, alter the death of the husband, is competent to prove facts coming to her knowledge from other sources, and not by means of her situation as a wife, notwithstanding they related to the transactions of her husband. She is a competent witness on a suit against her alone on a note signed by herself and her husband, to show that she was a mere surety on the note.</p>