Legal Opinion
Zinnel v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 7, 1925No. 102PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHand, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The refusal of the court to allow the photograph in evidence for the purpose offered was erroneous. It was not necessary that the witness who took it should swear that it was correct at the exact moment of the accident, when he was not present. If it represented the truth in the morning, a few hours before, and at once after the accident, the jury was entitled to assume that there had been no change in the interim. It was, moreover, admissible to contradict the testimony of the master and the mate that the lines were kept standing through the whole voyage,…
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