Mealey's ( January 5, 2023, 9:29 AM EST) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A split Texas appellate court reversed in part a lower court’s judgment in a dispute over accounting of business funds between former business partners after one partner died and his executor was substituted for him, finding that the lower court erred by overruling the executor’s objections to the surviving partner’s testimony of oral statements made by the decedent because pursuant to the Dead Man’s Rule, the lower court should not have included the decedent’s uncorroborated statements....