Volume 62 · 579
Public Law 80–609
To amend section 1064 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, relating to admissibility of testimony by a party to a transaction when the other party is incapable of testifying.
Approved June 24, 1948
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1064 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, relating to admissibility of testimony by a party to a transaction when the other party is incapable of testifying.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1064 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended, is amended to
D.C. Code § 14–302.
read as follows:
“Sec. 1064. Testimony of Surviving Party—.
In any civil action against a person who, from any cause, is legally incapable of testifying, or against the committee, trustee, executor, administrator, heir, legatee, devisee, assignee, or other representative of a deceased person or of the person so incapable of testifying, no judgment or decree shall be rendered in favor of the plaintiff founded on the uncorroborated testimony of the plaintiff or of the agent, servant, or employee of the plaintiff as to any transaction with or action, declaration or admission of the deceased or incapable person; and in any such action, if the plaintiff or any agent, servant, or employee of the plaintiff testifies as to any transaction with or action, declaration, or admission of the deceased or incapable person, no entry, memorandum, or declaration, oral or written, by the deceased or incapable person, made while he was capable and upon his personal knowledge, shall be excluded as hearsay.”
Approved June 24, 1948.