Case ID: ny-sup-ct_13/html/0299-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHN MULQUEEN, Appellant, v. JOHN F. DUFFY and JOSEPH H. BARTLETT, Administrators, etc., Respondents.
    
      General otgeetiow — when sufficient— Code, § 399.
    When the evidence is legally improper, and the obj ection to it could not be removed, if the attention of the party offering it were called to the particular objection, then a general objection is sufficient, to justify a ruling rejecting it.
    Under section 399 of the Code, a party to an action cannot testify against the representatives of a deceased person (parties to the action), that he did not see, or did not have a personal transaction with such deceased person.
    Appeal from a judgment entered on the report of a referee, appointed under the provisions of the Revised Statutes, to determine the validity of a disputed claim against the estate of Margaret Duffy.
    
      3. O. M. Ingraham,, for appellant. N. 3. Clement, for respondents.
    Present — Barnard, P. J., Tappen and Talcott, JJ.
   .Judgment affirmed, with costs.