Case ID: nc_3/html/0127-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Taylor, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Anonymous.
    
    THE plaintiff alledged, the negro in question had been given to him by his father and delivered ; the defendant alledged that the father (many years after this transaction was stated to have happened) by bill of sale conveyed the negro to him; and the wife of the lather was introduced by the plaintiff to prove the gift.
   Taylor, Judge.

'She cannot be received as a witness. The father himself could not be a witness, because he shall not be suffered to defeat his own deed; and if he could not, neither san the wife, for she is not competent to prove a fact which he could not be admitted to prove. He relied on 1 Term, 230, and said he was not aware of any decision which had restrained the rule .'here laid «iowti to negotiable papers only.