Anonymous

Superior Court of North Carolina

Anonymous

3 N.C. 127

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Superior Court of North Carolina·Decided July 5, 1800·Published

Opinion

Taylor, Judge.

'She cannot be received as a witness. The father himself could not be a witness, because he shall not be suffered to defeat his own deed; and if he could not, neither san the wife, for she is not competent to prove a fact which he could not be admitted to prove. He relied on 1 Term, 230, and said he was not aware of any decision which had restrained the rule .'here laid «iowti to negotiable papers only.

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Taylor, Judge.

'She cannot be received as a witness. The father himself could not be a witness, because he shall not be suffered to defeat his own deed; and if he could not, neither san the wife, for she is not competent to prove a fact which he could not be admitted to prove. He relied on 1 Term, 230, and said he was not aware of any decision which had restrained the rule .'here laid «iowti to negotiable papers only.

Anonymous, 3 N.C. 127 (N.C. Ct. App. 1800).

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