Matter of Estate of Lorenzo

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the burden of proof \may shift to the adversary when the pleader has discharged his initial burden\
• explaining that \[t]he burden of producing evidence is usually cast first upon the party who has pleaded the existence of the fact\
• noting that the burden of proof \may shift to the adversary when the pleader has discharged his initial burden\
• deciding the subsidiary issue whether the trial court properly granted a motion for jury trial because it was necessarily precedent to the question on appeal—i.e., whether the trial judge erred in failing to disqualify himself after having presided over the previous bench trial
• \The question on review of instructions is not whether they were technically correct but whether the appellant could have suffered prejudice on their account.\
• “The question on review of instructions is not whether they were technically correct but whether the appellant could have suffered prejudice on their account.”

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