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  "name": "T. J. MERONEY v. ALPHONSO C. AVERY, Executor, &c.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Meroney v. Avery",
  "decision_date": "1870-01",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
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    "parties": [
      "T. J. MERONEY v. ALPHONSO C. AVERY, Executor, &c."
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      {
        "text": "Rodman, J.\nThe plaintiff was an incompetent witness to any transaction or communication with the testator of the defendant: C. C. P. \u00a7 343; Whitesides v. Green, Admr. decided at this term: hut the objection was waived, by not being taken in due time. An objection must be taken as soon as its existence becomes known: 1 Stark. Ev. 114; 1 Greenl. Ev. 461. The introduction of the defendant after-wards cannot affect this case.\nPee Curiam:. Judgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Rodman, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Crc\u00e1ge and Bailey, for the appellant.",
      "Boy den, Blackmer & McOorMe and Clement, contra."
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    "head_matter": "T. J. MERONEY v. ALPHONSO C. AVERY, Executor, &c.\nObjections to the competency of testimony, must be taken in due time, if not, they are waived; Therefore, where a party was allowed to testify upon examination in chief, to a conversation between himself and the defendant\u2019s testator, and during the cross-examination, the defendant objected to the competency of such testimony, and asked that it might be excluded; Held, that although incompetent, the objection to its reception came too late.\n(Whitesides v. Green, ante 307, cited and approved.)\nAssumpsit, tried before Cloud, J., at Fall Term 1869 of \u00c9OWAN Court.\nUpon the trial, the plaintiff was introduced and testified, without objection, as to a conversation between himself and the testator in regard to the cause of action; upon his cross-examination he was asked if he were not plaintiff, and if Isaac T. Avery, the testator of the defendant, were not dead. Upon his answering in the affirmative, the defendant objected to the competency of his evidence as to the conversation.\nHis Honor held that all objection had been waived, and refused to exclude it.\nAfterwards the defendant testified in regard to the same conversation.\nYerdict for the plaintiff. Rule, &c. Judgment and Appeal.\nCrc\u00e1ge and Bailey, for the appellant.\nBoy den, Blackmer & McOorMe and Clement, contra."
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