 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1852 - 664 σελίδες
...this Court held, that to render a witness incompetent on the ground of Merest, it must be shown that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record mil be legal evidence for, or against him, in some other action, and that the interest to exclude a... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1919 - 806 σελίδες
...also has an interest in the litigation "of such a direct and immediate character that the intervener will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment." See opinion of Field, J., in Horn v. Water Co., 13 Cal. 62, cited with approval in Smith v. Gale, 144... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1920 - 788 σελίδες
...appears clearly that his interest in the subject-matter is of such a direct and immediate character that he will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the decree of this court determining the right of the defendant Preston to recover for his services in... | |
 | California - 1854 - 270 σελίδες
...of the interest of a person, which shall render him incompetent as a witness, shall be that he will gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action, but nothing in this,... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 σελίδες
...of the interest of a person, which shall ren-ler him incompetent as a witness, shall be that he will th houses of the législature. The person having the highest number of votes shall be gov of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him in some other action, but nothing in thi*,... | |
 | California - 1858 - 320 σελίδες
...of the interest of a person, which shall render him incompetent as a witness, shall be that he will gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him, in some other action ; but nothing in this,... | |
 | California - 1860 - 388 σελίδες
...of the interest of a person, which shall render him incompetent as a witness, shall be that he will gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record of the judgment will be legal evidence for or against him, in some other action ; but nothing in this,... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - 1861 - 486 σελίδες
...in the matter in litigation, and of such a direct and immediate character that the party intervening will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment. Horn v. Volcano Water Co., 13 Cal. 70. • 48. Where the record sho^vs in general terms the appearance... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - 1861 - 1182 σελίδες
...other than the premises in controversy did not disqualify him ; that he could not, from such ownership, gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, nor could the judgment be legal evidence for or against him in any other action. Mott v. Smith, 16... | |
 | California - 1863 - 756 σελίδες
...mast be in the matter in litigation, and of each a direct and imniediare character that the intervenor will either gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment. It most be that created by a claim to the demand, or some part thereof, in suit or a claim to, or lien... | |
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Field, now a member of this court, that "the interest mentioned in the statute which entitles a person to intervene in a suit between other parties must be in the matter in litigation, and of such a direct and immediate character that the intervenor will... 
