State ex rel. Metropolitan Bank v. Judge of the Civil District Court
Citations
- 107 La. 474
Syllabus
<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>Where a trial .judge refuses to order that a commission issue to take the testimony of a witness for the purposes of the trial of a matter pending before him, on the ground that the interrogatories propounded show that such testimony would be irrelevant and impertinent, the remedy is by appeal from the final judgment thereafter to be rendered and not by mandamus directing the issuance of the commission.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that “only expert testimony is permitted” in determining causation of property damages under insurance policy
- “[A] jury is free to consider [lay] witness perceptions (along with all the evidence) when determining causation.”
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Judges: Breaux, Monroe, Nicholls
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