Koller v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Citations

• 41 Pa. Super. 48
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 10

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Witness—Contradiction of party’s own witness.</p> <p>1. Where a party summons a witness in the expectation, from statements made by the witness, that he would testify in a particular manner, and the witness fails to do so, the party may call other witnesses to show that the witness in question had contradicted himself.</p> <p>2. Where, in an action on a life insurance policy, a physician testifies indefinitely as to the time he attended the insured, and as to the reasons for his conclusions, it is for the jury to say whether or not his conclusion was justified, and in any event the question of veracity is for them.</p>