Padgett v. Padgett

41 Ala. 382

• Court: Supreme Court of Alabama
• Decided: June 15, 1867
• Status: Published

Opinion

JUDGE, J.

At the date of the settlement by the guardian in this case, he might have established by his own oath any item in his account not exceeding twenty dollars ; but it appears from the record that the court permitted him to testify generally as a witness in his own behalf. In permitting this, the court below erred. Our decision upon this point is, of course, made without reference to the act in relation to the competency of witnesses, which became a law subsequent to the date of the settlement.—Acts 1866-67, p. 435. This act may exercise an important influence over the case on another settlement.

There are other questions in the cause; but some of them are not very clearly presented by the bill of exceptions, and we decline to notice any other than the one above designated; for the erroneous ruling of the probate court in relation to which, the decree must be reversed, and the cause remanded.