What is the test for the proposition of insufficient evidence in a civil case?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Allstate Insurance Co. of Canada v. Wong's Insurance Services Ltd., 1994 CanLII 783 (BC CA):

30 A somewhat different, but closely related, proposition is to be found in the judgment of Lord Kenyon in Kirk v. French (1794), 1 Esp. 79, "... that the evidence was insufficient as the evidence offered did not seem to be the best the nature of the case admitted of".

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