Case ID: f-cas_30/html/0144-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DUCKETT, Circuit Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 17,819.
    WILSON v. McCLEAN et al.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 465.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1807.
    Evidence — Statement op Grounds f'or Belief.
    When a witness states the grounds of his belief of a material fact, his belief, together with the reasons of his belief, are proper evidence to be left to the jury.
    In a deposition the deponent said he “believed, the goods were for the house of McOlean & Winterberry, as they were shipped to Mc-Clean & Winterberry at Alexandria.”
    
    Mr. Youngs, for defendant,
    moved the court to strike out the words above (in italics), which the court refused, because the witness has stated the grounds of his belief.
   DUCKETT, Circuit Judge,

absent.