Housel v. Cremer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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1. “"The th~'st of these (assignments of error) is that Housel, who offered himself as a witness in his own behalf, was not permitted to testify, the court holding him to cc disqualified by section 329 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that `No person having a direct legal interest in the result of any civil cause or proceeding, shall be a competent witness therein when the adverse party is an executor, administrator, or legal representative of a deceased person/ etc. This ruling was correct. It is trae that Cremer was neither an executor nor administrator, but he was the assignee of Agnes M. McKelligon, and, within the contemplation of the statute, her ‘legal representative.’ He had, by the deed of assignment, been intrusted with the property in controversy for the purpose of selling it and paying off her debts. This done, if there should happen to be a surplus it would belong to her estate. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rankin v. Cox