HEARSAY EVIDENCE NOT ADMISSABLE.
An eminent Lord Chief Justice, who was trying a right-of-way case, had before him a witness — an old farmer — who was proceed* ing, to tell the jury that he had "knowed the path for 60 year, and my f eyther tould I as he had heard my grandfeythersay — -" "Stop," said the judge, "we can't have hearsay evidence here." " Not !" exclaimed Father Giles. " Then how dost know who thy grandf eyther was 'cept by hearsay ?" After the laughter had subsided, the judge said : • " In courts of law we can only be guided with what you have seen with your eyes, and nothing more or less." " Ob, that be blowed for a talc !" replied the farmer. " I ba' got a bile on the bask w
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Otago Witness, Issue 1848, 22 April 1887, Page 34
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127HEARSAY EVIDENCE NOT ADMISSABLE. Otago Witness, Issue 1848, 22 April 1887, Page 34
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