Overton v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““But it seems to be well settled, that the declarations of a party having competent knowledge of the facts, and at variance with his own interest, are admissible after the death of the declarant as original evidence, without reference to the time when they were made, or to the question whether the party, if alive, would be a competent witness or not. Such are admitted on the ground of their intrinsic credibility, and the extreme improbability that a party under such circumstances, would state anything but the truth.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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