Court Opinion

ID: 9651174
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:09:36.480814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:21.640898
License: Public Domain

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
I concur in the result and with all of the opinion, except the following statement on page 3 [144 F.2d 678], “and shifted the burden to the company to go forward and show by a preponderance of the evidence that the condition no longer existed.” I think the sole effect of the evidence of the judgment in the former case was to create *680a presumption and cast upon the company the duty to come forward with evidence against the fact presumed sufficient to take the case to the jury. It is my view that the burden of proof did not shift. Wigmore on Evidence, 2d Ed., Vol. 5, §§ 2485, 2487, 2489.