Opinion ID: 331427
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Heading: Helen Payne

Text: 37 The defendant challenges as irrelevant the testimony of Helen Payne, one of the tenants in his building. Her testimony, if believed, tended to establish that Rajewski had never suffered flood damages in his basement on August 25, 1972. She testified that she saw no water on the basement floor, smelled no odor which could have followed water damage, suffered no damage to any of the items she stored on the floor of her storage bin, and had seen no repairs made to the storage lockers during her tenancy. 38 One of the items Rajewski claimed to be damaged by the supposed flood was storage lockers, a principal item listed as repaired in the $531 Toepfer repair bill. Mrs. Payne's testimony directly contradicted Rajewski's assertion. In the face of Payne's explicit contradiction of the truth of Rajewski's written claim in the SBA form, the relevancy of her testimony is patent.