Court Opinion

ID: 6309376
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 19:14:10.575255+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:02.293014
License: Public Domain

Sed per cur.

Mere abstract opinion is not evidence; but a surveyor, or any other person conversant in the subject, may state facts, and his opinion on those facts, to enable the jury to form a correct judgment of the matter in dispute. It is general information in a question of science, which others unacquainted with the subject must necessarily want. Thus a physician, who has not seen the particular patient, may, after hearing the evidence of others, be called to prove on his oath, the general effects of a particular disease, and its probable consequences in the particular case. Peake on Evid. 137.