 | Law - 1889 - 586 pages
...Evidence— Admissions and Declarations — As has been well said by a leading textwriter "verbal admissions ought to be received with great caution; the evidence...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 872 pages
...satisfactory. As said by the Supreme Court of Missouri in Kinney v. Murray ct al, 170 Mo. 674 (71 SW 197) : The evidence consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed himself, or... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 1164 pages
...mistake. Greenleaf, in his work on Evidence, says at section 200: "With respect to all verbal admissions, It may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution." Allen v. Kirk, 81 Iowa, 670, 47 NW 906; Kelsoe v. State, 47 Ala. 599; Cousins v. Jackson, 52 Ala. 264;... | |
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With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed, that they ought to be received with great caution. The evidence, consisting as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake... 
