Reed v. McCord

In a wrongful-death suit, the defendant (McCord) had described the accident's circumstances to a coroner; at trial, the coroner testified to what McCord had told him, over McCord's hearsay objection. The trial resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff administratrix, and McCord challenged the coroner's testimony as inadmissible hearsay.

Whether the coroner's testimony relaying the defendant's own statements about the accident was inadmissible hearsay not falling within any exception.