Voelker v. Combined Ins. Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the rule providing that an inference may not be drawn from another inference, as opposed to being drawn from an established fact, is designed to protect litigants from verdicts or judgments based on speculation
• acknowledging “often-stated rule against laying inference upon inference,” which “protect[s] litigants from verdicts or judgment based upon speculation,” but also noting that the rule “must yield” to an exception for the “inescapable inference,” on which a second inference may still be based

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).