101 Ga. 62 | Ga. | 1897
This was a proceeding instituted by Western Lodge No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons, against the executors of Spencer Marsh, to establish a copy of an alleged lost deed which the plaintiff claimed had been made to the lodge by the defendants’ testator. The petition does not distinctly disclose that the plaintiff had ever been incorporated, but it is apparent from the record that it was dealt with by the court and by counsel on both sides as a corporation ; so we are left to assume that it was one, and accordingly shall treat it as such for the purposes of this discussion.
At the trial, two members of the lodge were offered as witnesses for the purpose of proving communications to them in the nature of admissions by the deceased, tending to show that he had in fact executed and delivered to the lodge a deed of
As the case must, for another reason, be tried again, it can, at the next hearing, be ascertained exactly what sort of an association the plaintiff is, and the competency of these witnesses can then be passed upon with .reference to'the question whether they really have, or have not, a pecuniary interest in the result of the case.
Judgment reversed.