Monarch Insurance Company of Ohio v. May Spach, as Receiver for Ro-Ben, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
In what would otherwise be an ordinary run-of-the-mill diversity suit granting recovery under a fire insurance policy for property located in Florida, there is presented an issue on a specific piece of evidence tendered and excluded which brings the question to the brink of the constitution. The precise question is whether a federal court sitting in Florida could, by virtue of a specific Florida statute, exclude testimony which otherwise would be admissible.
Posing the problem with such potential implications is a very simple situation. The property owner, a…
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