Section 5.6 Testimony of Interested Persons

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VI. (§5.6) Testimony of Interested Persons

General Rule: A witness’s interest in the result of a trial affects the witness’s credibility and the weight of the witness’s testimony, but this does not mean that facts cannot be proven by interested witnesses.

In an action by a law firm to recover attorney fees under an oral contract for legal services rendered to a client, the fact that the accountant employed by the law firm was not completely disinterested went to the weight to be given to his testimony but...

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