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equally supported inconsistent inferences

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From 288 U.S. 333 - Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · 1933Most cited · 1,023 citing opinions

Where proven facts give equal support to each of two inconsistent inferences; in which event, neither of them being established, judgment, as a matter of law, must go against the party upon whom rests the necessity of sustaining one of these inferences as against the other, before he is entitled to recover.