 | 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 - 1894 - 758 sidor
...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 - 1852 - 614 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 sidor
...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 - 1868 - 732 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 542 sidor
...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 - 1870 - 882 sidor
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1871 - 688 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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The rule that the evidence must correspond with the allegations and be confined to the point in issue excludes all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact... 
