Stewart v. Tussey's Admx.
Stewart v. Tussey's Admx.
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
This action was brought by C. B. Tussey’s administratrix for $100 which by mistake had been credited on a note of $340, on which she had- previously instituted suit, recovered and collected judgment. It appears that Stewart, Cornett -and Turner borrowed $400 from the decedent, Stewart and Cornett receiving $300 thereof and Turner the remainder. Interest to the amount of $53.33 had accumulated
Turner paid the $100 and by mistake Mrs. Tussey’s agent credited it on the note of Stewart and Cornett; hence she did not sue them for and recover that part of their indebtedness. She does not seek to set aside that judgment, but to recover the remainder they owe her, and we can not see why she has not the legal right to do so. It is necessary in such a case to make clear and satisfactory proof of the mistake, and this she has done by checks and other evidences to a mathematical demonstration. The evidence of Z. T. Young so far as it detailed conversations between him and Bradley, the father and agent of appellee, in the absence of the appellant was incompetent, but it being an inducement to the subsequent conversation between him and the appellants brought about by it there was no material error in failing to exclude it, as the evidence fully sustains the judgment without it. The exclusion of Cornett’s deposition was proper because he is one of the defendants, interested in his own behalf, and testified to a conversation material to his own defense with the decedent in his lifetime under no exceptional circumstances that would authorize its admission. The code expressly declares such evidence inadmissible. Civ. Code 1876, § 606, subsec. 2.
Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.
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