In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wood

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wood

185 A.D. 936

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided October 15, 1918·Published·Cited by 3 cases

Opinion

Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county in so far as appealed from reversed, and claim of appellant remitted to said court for a new trial there, costs to abide the event, upon the ground that the testimony of the claimant’s husband was not incompetent under section 829 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as under his version decedent’s promise was to pay the claimant alone, and, therefore, the husband was not interested in the event of the action that is the out[937]*937come of her claim. Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Mills, Kelly and Jaycox, JJ., concurred.

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Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county in so far as appealed from reversed, and claim of appellant remitted to said court for a new trial there, costs to abide the event, upon the ground that the testimony of the claimant’s husband was not incompetent under section 829 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as under his version decedent’s promise was to pay the claimant alone, and, therefore, the husband was not interested in the event of the action that is the out[937]*937come of her claim. Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Mills, Kelly and Jaycox, JJ., concurred.

In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Wood, 185 A.D. 936 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1918).

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