 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit), Robert William Hughes - 1880 - 750 pages
...also may the wife of a bankrupt be examined in bankruptcy. See sections 5087 and 5088. And, generally, in the courts of the United States, " no witness shall be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Section 858, p. 162. 6. The... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1880 - 742 pages
...also may the wife of a bankrupt be examined in bankruptcy. See sections 5087 and 5088. And, generally, in the courts of the United States, " no witness shall be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Section 858, p. 162. 6. The... | |
 | 1896 - 2118 pages
...Revised Statutes of the United States, it is enacted that "* * * no witness shall be excluded • • • because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried:" provided (so far as affects the present case) "that in actions by * * * administrators • • • neither party... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis - 1880 - 362 pages
...United States, there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried." That swept away, absolutely and entirely, all objections to witnesses, either because they had an interest... | |
 | 1881 - 956 pages
...in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness * * * in civil actions because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried." Under the statute as it thus stood, the laws of Nevada, excluding a party where the opposite party... | |
 | William Edward Miller - 1881 - 728 pages
...The proviso to the third section of the act of July 2, 1864 (§ 858 of the Revised Statutes'), that in the courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried has no application to the courts... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 836 pages
...Untied States v. Schurz, 378. 2. Sect. 858 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which declares "that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment m;iy be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as... | |
 | 1882 - 1284 pages
...Corkhill will read, in the general Revised Statutes, section 858. The DISTRICT ATTORNEY. [Heading:] In the courts of the United States no witness shall...he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Proridtd, That in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardian*, iu which judgment... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1302 pages
...in US Courts — lawi of State. 1. In thp Courts of the TTnftcd States, no witness can be excluded in any civil action because he is a party to or Interested in the issue triod. 2. It is only in eases not provided for by the Statutes nf the United States, that the laws... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1882 - 1000 pages
...the states, statutes exist simply providing that no witness shall be excluded from testifying in a civil action because he is a party to, or interested in the issue to be tried, but it may be affirmed that these statutes do not change the common-law rule that husband... | |
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Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them... 
