Safeway Insurance v. Hister

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• affidavits presented in support of summary judgment which are not contradicted by counteraffidavits must be taken as true
• “evidence that would be inadmissible at trial may not be considered in support of or in opposition to a motion for summary judgment”
• “[Summary judgment] in a proper case is to be encouraged because its benefits inure not only to the litigants in the savings of time and expenses, but to the community in avoiding congestion of trial calendars and the expenses of unnecessary trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).