Beeman v. Jester Bros.’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A party bringing up for revision a ruling of the court below excluding evidence, must clearly lay before us in a bill of exceptions the nature of the evidence he proposed to introduce. It must be plainly shown that it does not consist of facts which were irrelevant or unimportant, and not leave us to presume that they were otherwise by putting upon the evidence a construction that would render its exclusion error, when a construction might be placed upon it that would justify the ruling of the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 Tex. Civ. App. 496 - Hereford Cattle Co. v. Powell