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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 933
    KERR v. HAYES
    No. 20042.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. Aug. 4, 1926;
    4 Abs. 541.
    480. EVIDENCE — Is the assignor in an action by an assignee against the administrator on a note, incompetent as a witness under 11494 GC. and the assignee under 11495 GC.? »
    Attorneys — P. B. Fowler, Wauseon for Kerr; A. L. Gebhard, Bryan, for Hayes.
   The question herein involved concerns an action by assignee of a promissory note against an administrator of the maker thereof. It is contended that the original payee or assignor of a note is not a competent witness to prove the obligation and signature of the maker, by virtue of 11494 GC. and Kerr is likewise incompetent under 11495 GC.