What is the test for admissible evidence in a civil case?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Daggett v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. Co., 301 P.2d 923 (Cal. App. 1956):

It has long been held in this state, as in most states, that such evidence is not ordinarily admissible. In the early case of Sappenfield v. Main St. & A. P. R. Co., 91 Cal. 48, 27 P. 590, 593, the court said:

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