This rule excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption or inference, as to the principal fact or matter in dispute... Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 186by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1894Full view - About this book
| Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, Oliver Miller - 1852 - 614 pages
...issue, and correspond with the allegations. This excludes " all evidence of collateral facts, or facts which are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute." "In some instances, however, evidence of facts, which have no apparent connection with the matter in... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1882 - 750 pages
...judicial investigations. But whether these foreign facts are or are not the acts of strangers, if they are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption or inference as to the final subject, they ought not to be admitted. They are likely to lead to the multipli-' cation of issues... | |
| Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1886 - 666 pages
...the issue, or constitutes a link in the chain of proof; and this seems to be the limit, and excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute; and for the good reason stated for the rule by Mr. Greenleaf, that such evidence tends to draw away... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1917 - 724 pages
...evidence must be confined to the point in issue. (Farris v. People, 129 111. 521.) This rule excludes all evidence of collateral facts or those which are...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute, the reason being that such evidence tends to draw away the minds of the jurors from the point in issue... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 pages
...is to be laid out of the case.1 § 52. This rule excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or thoso which are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute ; and tho reason is, that such evidence tends to draw away the minds of tho jurors from the point in... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1868 - 732 pages
...387. 1 Greenleaf's Evidence, §51, a, §52. 1 Phillips' Evidence, 3d ed. 460.) And "this rule excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are...inference, as to the principal fact or matter in dispute." (See also Jackson v. Smith, 7 Cowen, 717.) No legal errors were committed during the progress of the... | |
| 1887 - 542 pages
...link in the chain of proof; and this seems to be the limit, and excludes all evidence of collnteral facts, or those which are incapable of affording any...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute, and for the good reason stated for the rule by Mr. Ureeuleaf, that such evidence tends to draw away... | |
| Joseph Brown Heiskell - 1870 - 882 pages
...party has no pertinence to the issue, more than have his peculiar views upon religion. This fact is incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute, and tended to draw away the minds of the jury, and mislead them. Judgment reversed and remanded. JOSEPH... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1871 - 688 pages
...legal sense is not collateral. It raises, it is true, a new and distinct inquiry ; but if it affords a reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact or matter in issue, it is relevant and material and Inhabitants of North Brookfield v. Inhabitants of Warren. does... | |
| Lewis Hamilton Bond, United States. Circuit Court (6th Circuit) - 1872 - 526 pages
...that all evidence must be pertinent to the issue; and evidence of collateral facts, which affords no reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute, must be excluded. The principal fact, or matter in dispute here, is the alleged fraud charged against... | |
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