 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1891 - 952 sivua
...449; State v. Kirkman, 63 N. C, 246; Stephens' Dig. of Ev., Art. 132. Collateral facts are such as are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. 1 Greenleaf, § 52. As we have seen, the opinion given in this case became important on account of... | |
 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1892 - 832 sivua
...court, tended to prove such a case; for, according to Greenleaf, the court was authorized to " exclude all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute." 1 Greenl. Ev. § 52. Was the evidence offered incapable of affording such reasonable presumption or... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1894 - 704 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1894 - 1288 sivua
...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...Incapable of affording any reasonable presumption of inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 52. This testimony might... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1894 - 1008 sivua
...always be confined to the precise point in issue, but all evidence is admissible except that which is incapable of affording any reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact in dispute. (1 Greenleaf, Evidence, sec. 52.) Facts which, though not in issue, are so connected with... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1895 - 1054 sivua
...note to Barkly v. Copeland, 5 Am. St. Rep. 418. HOMICIDE — EVIDENCE. — ON A PROSECUTION FOR MURDER all evidence of collateral facts, or those which are...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute, should be excluded: Farris v. People, 129 111. 521; 16 Am. St. Rep. 283. Hut all matters in any way... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1911 - 1026 sivua
...EVIDENCE MUST BE CONFINED TO THE ISSUES, but this rule does not exclude testimony capable of affording a reasonable presumption or inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. Brewing Co. T. Baurr, 6S6. 2. EVIDENCE OF OTHER ACCIDENTS. — In an action to recover for injuries... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1896 - 900 sivua
...Ev., Sec. 51 a. " The rule excluding evidence of collateral facts, treats as collateral facts only those ' which are incapable of affording any reasonable...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute.' " 1 Greenl. Ev., Sec. 52. As to knowledge and intent: " In the matter, however, of collateral proof,... | |
 | David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1206 sivua
...with the principal issue or matter in dispute. Rapalje & Lawr. Law Diet.; Bouv. Law Diet. Those facts which are incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter in dispute. Such facts are inadmissible as not tending to prove the issue. Greenleaf on Ev., g 52; Taylor on Ev.... | |
 | 1899 - 1136 sivua
...must be confined to the issues. Evidence of collateral facts are excluded under the rule, as being incapable of affording any reasonable presumption...inference as to the principal fact or matter In dispute. 1 Greenl. Ev. |§ 51, 62. It is under this rule that it is held to be incompetent for the prosecution... | |
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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... 
