What is the test for admissibility of testimony by a plaintiff in a civil case?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hessler v. Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1934 CanLII 210 (SK CA):
Counsel for the defendant objected to the admissibility of this testimony, as having no probative value, since the similarity of the conditions upon which the plaintiff’s experience was founded to those which existed on the morning in question had not been sufficiently established. I think, however, that the plaintiff was entitled to put it before the jury for what it was worth: Vide Piggott v. Eastern Counties Ry. Co. (1846) 3 C.B. 229, 136 E.R. 92.
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