Penny v. Gule Refining Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• invocation of privilege \is an implied admission that a truthful answer would tend to prove that the witness had committed the act\
• invocation of privilege “is an implied admission that a truthful answer would tend to prove that the witness had committed the act”
• negative inference drawn from mother's refusal to testify in a deprivation case
• negative inference drawn from mother’s refusal to testify in a deprivation case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).