 | Elisha Hammond - 1840 - 200 pages
...witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admississible whenever the subject-matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance, in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science as to require a... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 pages
...of witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible whenever the subject-matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance, in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science as to require a... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 pages
...witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible, whenever the subject-matter of inquiry is such, that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance ; in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science or art, as to... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1860 - 688 pages
...•witnesses possessing peculiar skill, are admissible whenever the subject matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance; in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science or art, as to require... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1913 - 710 pages
...adopted the rule of admitting the opinions of witnesses whenever the subject matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance." (Jones on Evidence, — 2d ed. — sec. 367.) While it is often difficult to draw... | |
 | Theodore Thring - 1861 - 416 pages
...witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible, whenever the subject matter of inquiry is such, that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance ; in other words, when it so far partakes of the character of a science or art, as... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - 1862 - 776 pages
...of witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible, wherever the subject matter of enquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it v:ithout such assistance ; in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science, as to... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 pages
...of witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible, wherever the subject-matter of enquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance ; in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science, as to require... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1869 - 646 pages
...-witness* es possessing peculiar skill is admissible, wherever the subject-matter of enquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without suchassistance; in other words, when it so far partakes of the nature of a science, as to require a... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pages
...opinion of a witness possessing peculiar skill is admissible whenever the subject of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon it without such assistance." Wo do not question the correctness or modify the force of the decision in Sowers... | |
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On the one hand, it appears to be admitted that the opinions of witnesses possessing peculiar skill is admissible, whenever the subject matter of inquiry is such that inexperienced persons are unlikely to prove capable of forming a correct judgment upon... 
