Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 598

598. (1) As a rule, the court shall not consider any testimony respecting facts the knowledge of which the witness states to have obtained from the relation or information of third persons who can be produced to give evidence of such facts. (2) The court may, either ex officio or upon the objection of any party, rule out or disallow any question tending to elicit any such testimony. (3) Nevertheless the court may require the witness to mention the person from whom he obtained knowledge of the facts to which any such question refers. When hearsay evidence is admissible. Amended by: XV.1913.121.