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

GENERAL COURT, (E. S.)
    APRIL TERM, 1804.
    Wallis’s Ex’r. vs. Britton et ux.
    
    A second surviving his wife who was administratrix of her first husband is a competent witness for her surety in an action on the administration bond.
    Appeal from Queen-Jlmte’s county court. The second husband, surviving his wife who was the admin-istratrix of her first husband, was offered as a witness at the trial in the county court, by the executor, ft be v * ^ appellant,) of a co-obligor in her administration bond; but was rejected by the county court, and this appeal was prosecuted.
    At the argument in this court, the following cases were cited: — 1 T. R. 163. 4 T, R. 17. S T, R. 667. 2 East. 561.
   The Genekal Court reversed the judgment of the County Court.