Lambert v. Caruso’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “* * * The learned judge below believed the defendant and resolved the doubt created by the conflicting evidence in his favor, giving judgment accordingly, and we are unable to say that in doing so he committed manifest error. The case appears to us as one peculiarly within the oft-stated doctrine to the effect that the judgment of the trial court on a question of fact will not be disturbed unless palpably erroneous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 So. 2d 641 - Galiano v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation