 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...matters in dispute ; and the reason is, that such evidence tends needlessly to consume the public time, to draw away the minds of the jurors from the point in issue, and to excite prejudice and mislead; moreover, the adverse party, having had no notice of such evidence, is not prepared to rebut 1 CM &... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 758 pages
...negligently started his horses forward, causing the plaintiff to be thrown from the car. The rules exclude all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 52. This testimony might tend to prejudice the driver of the car with the jury. But... | |
 | Maryland. Court of Appeals, Richard W. Gill, Oliver Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 666 pages
...to prove 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...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 the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 724 pages
...reasonable presumption or 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 and arouse their prejudice. Moreover, the adverse party would not be given notice by the charges in the... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 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...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 issue,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 732 pages
...The rule that no evidence is admissible which does not tend to prove or disprove the issue joined, excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are incapable of affecting any reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. Where... | |
 | Law - 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...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 the... | |
 | Joseph Brown Heiskell - Law reports, digests, etc - 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...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... | |
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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... 
