Marsh v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Because the question whether plaintiff had already received payment for the same injury was “opened up” to speculation by defendant’s offer of the entire previous complaint in evidence, including its prayer for $35,000, I am of the opinion that plaintiff was entitled to show the amount actually received by her as a result of that complaint. Otherwise, we would be condoning a practice under which one party is permitted by the trial judge to strike a questionable blow, over the objection of the other party, whose hands are then tied by the trial judge, at the request of the first party, when he attempts to defend himself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. King v. Barron