American Family Mutual Insurance v. Shannon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial judge sitting as finder of fact erred by making unnoticed and unrecorded visit to accident scene because, in part, such actions “are outside the record and therefore beyond this court’s reach in its review”
• holding that trial judge sitting as finder of fact erred by making unnoticed and unrecorded visit to accident scene because, in part, such actions \are outside the record and therefore beyond this court's reach in its review\
• adopting the generally accepted doctrine that \a statement not addressed to the question before the court or necessary for its decision\ is dicta, and not binding on the court
• judge as trier of fact made view of scene; appellate court held that an unannounced, unaccompanied, and unrecorded view is an error of law
• \a statement not addressed to the question before the court or necessary for its decision\ is dictum
• “A judge or juror is allowed to consider knowledge or experience attained in the every day affairs of life in making a decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).