Court Opinion

ID: 9544620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:57:59.499104+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:13:19.475310
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Pringle
specially concurring:
I agree with the majority that under the circumstances of this case the answers to the requests for admissions were improperly admitted into evidence. They were strictly self-serving declarations with no opportunity to cross-examine.
However, I think the disposition which the majority makes of this case is wrong. In my view, the case should be remanded to the district court for a new trial.
I do not think it proper, under the circumstances of this case, for this Court to strike from the record evidence which was improperly admitted and then determine that the remaining evidence does not support the judgment. In my view, we should not take it upon ourselves to determine that there was no other evidence available to the prevailing party to support his judgment other than that which was stricken.
I would therefore, as I have said, remand the case for a new trial and permit the parties to present whatever proper evidence they might have to support their position.