LEDBETTER v. GRAHAM

Action on Note — Trial — Witness — Competency of — Transaction with a Deceased Person.

1. A party to an action is a competent witness as to a transaction between himself and a person deceased at the time of such examination when the representative of such deceased person is not a party to the action.

2. The interest disqualifying a person as a witness under sec. 590 of the Code is an interest in the event of the action.

PER CURIAM:

Affirmed. See Shields v. Smith, 79 N.C. 517, and Bunn v. Todd, 107 N.C. 266.

Cited: McGowan v. Davenport, 134 N.C. 531, 535.