How have courts dealt with family situations?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Reekie v. Messervey, 1986 CanLII 1103 (BC SC):
Some of the authorities deal with a family situation — Aydon v. Morgan — but none except it refer to familial situations other than in passing. In the case at bar I am asked to rigidly interpret the words spoken by the plaintiff in the witness stand as if they had been spoken between strangers; but, in my view, this is not correct and because of the family situation I think the result is different than it might otherwise have been.
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