 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849 - 916 pages
...interest must be proven, not presumed. Lot v. Sandifer, 2 Rep. Con. Ct. 167. It must be shown that he will gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be evidence, either for or against him, in some other action. Kennon v. McRae,... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1848 - 786 pages
...the record shows that the said William C. Miller was so situated that he would either gain or loose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment in this case, or that the record will be hgal evidence for or against him in some other action. It must be a certain,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 pages
...Mag. 244. Dillingham for plaintiff. The true test of the interest of a witness is, that he will either gain, or lose, by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment, or that the record will be evidence for or against him in some other action. 1 Greenl. Ev., § 390.... | |
 | 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 pages
...of the interest of a person, which shall ren-ler 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,... | |
 | California - 1858 - 320 pages
...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... | |
 | California - 1860 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1914 - 714 pages
...— sec. 397, note 3, and cases cited.) Gillespie gave quit-claim deeds to the property. He would not gain or lose by the direct legal operation and effect of the judgment. Neither could the record itself be given in evidence for or against him. His interest as against his... | |
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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 either gain or lose by the direct legal... 
