Case Name: ROBERTSON v. SELBY
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-12
Citations: 20 F. Cas. 954
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBERTSON v. SELBY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 20
Pages: 954–954

Head Matter:
Case No. 11,929.
ROBERTSON v. SELBY.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 211.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1804.
Witness — Competency — Interest — Action by Administrator — Intestate’s Creditors.
Creditors of the plaintiff's intestate are competent witnesses to support a claim by the plaintiff as administrator against the defendant.
Several persons, supposed to be creditors of the plaintiff’s intestate, whose estate was insolvent, were offered as witnesses for the plaintiff upon the general issue.
Mr. Mason objected to their competency, on the ground of interest.

Opinion:
But THE COURT
said that such a remote possibility of interest goes to the credit, and not to the competency, of the witness.
The witnesses, however, released to the plaintiff all their interest, and were sworn.