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· 4/4/1957

Young v. Liddington

Citations

  • 309 P.2d 761
  • 50 Wash. 2d 78
  • 1957 Wash. LEXIS 301

How courts have described this case

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  • providing examples of business records, such as “payrolls, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bills of lading, and so forth”
  • admission of hospital records containing examining doctor's conclusion as to causation of present epileptic condition constituted reversible error
  • admission of hospital records containing examining doctor’s conclusion as to causation of present epileptic condition constituted reversible error
  • permissible to use deposition of party opponent as substantive evidence during a litigant' s case -in- chief
  • doctor’s diagnosis of epilepsy admissible but not doctor’s opinion or conclusion regarding cause, which “could only be based upon speculation or conjecture”
  • business “records are permitted in evidence to prove the truth and accuracy of accounts then present and contemporaneously recorded”

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Judges: Ott

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