Case Name: Alfred V. Davis vs. Lem Mackle
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Gunby 89
Docket Number: 
Parties: Alfred V. Davis vs. Lem Mackle.
Judges: 
Reporter: Legal points decided by the Second circuit court of Louisiana (Gunby's Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 89–89

Head Matter:
Alfred V. Davis vs. Lem Mackle.

Opinion:
Gunby, J.
The common law rules of evidence, by which courts are governed in this State, allow defendant to offer evidence in reply to plaintiff's rebuttal evidence, only when the latter has gone into matters and issues not raised or inquired into in defendant's evidence, nor in plaintiff's evidence in chief. In all other cases, the reopening or extension of the right to introduce evidence is confided to the sound discretion of the lower court.