Case Name: Benedict v. Brownson
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1786-08
Citations: 1 Kirby 70
Docket Number: 
Parties: Benedict v. Brownson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 70–71

Head Matter:
Benedict v. Brownson.
A witness is not admissible where he has a promise to receive part of the avails of the suit; .though, if tjhe party was indebted to him, and had no visible means of payment but by recovery, that alone would not exclude him.
Ur this case tbe plaintiff offered a witness, who bad engaged to pay bis, tbe plaintiff’s, attorney for carrying on tbe suit (tbe plaintiff being a poor man), and bad a promise from tbe plaintiff tbat part of tbe avails of tbe suit, if a recovery was bad, should be applied to the payment of a debt then due to the witness from the plaintiff. But,

Opinion:
By the Court.
He is interested and inadmissible, as he has a promise to share the benefit of the recovery, if one is had: Though, if the objection went no further than, that the plaintiff was indebted to him, and had no visible means of payment, excepting by a recovery, it would not exclude him. That point has been long decided.