Opinion ID: 2191641
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: 9, inclusive Further rulings on evidence

Text: Kerpelman has excepted to the trial judge's failure to permit testimony as to [Kerpelman's] ordinary practice as concerns fees, his failure to permit witnesses called by [Kerpelman] to testify thereto referring to [the practice concerning fees], his failure to permit other witnesses called by [Kerpelman] to testify, and [t]he limitation on the number of character witnesses called by [Kerpelman]. Again, we find a lack of specificity. Although we permitted Kerpelman to file a revised brief subsequent to the argument in this matter, that rambling, forty-page document does not address this or many other points raised by the exceptions. We have observed many times that the reception of evidence is to a large degree entrusted to the discretion of the trial court and its action will seldom constitute grounds for reversal. See, generally, e.g., State v. Conn, 286 Md. 406, 425, 408 A.2d 700 (1979); Impala Platinum v. Impala Sales, 283 Md. 296, 332, 389 A.2d 887 (1978); Radman v. Harold, 279 Md. 167, 173, 367 A.2d 472 (1977); Andrews v. Andrews, 242 Md. 143, 152, 218 A.2d 194 (1966); Smith v. State Roads Comm., 240 Md. 525, 214 A.2d 792 (1965); Sanner v. Guard, 236 Md. 271, 277, 203 A.2d 885 (1964); Turner v. State Roads Comm., 213 Md. 428, 434, 132 A.2d 455 (1957); Reid v. Humphreys, 210 Md. 178, 185, 122 A.2d 756 (1956); Barranco v. Kostens, 189 Md. 94, 97, 54 A.2d 326 (1947); Zeller v. Mayson, 168 Md. 663, 667, 668, 669, 179 A. 179 (1935); Ice Machinery Corp. v. Sachs, 167 Md. 113, 126, 173 A. 240 (1934); and Maryland Electric Ry. v. Beasley, 117 Md. 270, 277, 83 A. 157 (1912). We find no error in this case.