Supreme Court of North Carolina January 5, 1879 (Mason v. . McCormick)

Smith, 0. J.

When this canse was before the -court at-June term, 1876, it was decided that Alexander Mason, a

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■surety to the prosecution bond, was incompetent as:a wit-mess for the plaintiff to testify to a ’Conversation with Dun■can McCormick, under whom the present defendants claim title as his devisees.