A term applied to that spe-cies of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he has heard said by others. Hopt v. Utah, 110 U. S. 574, 4 Sup. Ct 202. 28 L. Ed. 262; Morell v. Morell, 157 Ind. 179, CO N. E. 1092; Stockton v. williams, 1 Doug. (Mich.) 570; People v. Kraft, 91 Hun, 474, 36 N. Y. Supp. 1034