Feil v. Northwest German Farmers Mutual Insurance
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court of Mclntosb County, Allen, J. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appeals. Tbe evidence of Fell and wife was given through an interpreter, and it was and is difficult to know the true meaning of evidence so secured. Haines v. People, 82 111. 430; People v. Barberi, 149 N. Y. 269, 52 Am.
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Appeal from District Court of Mclntosb County, Allen, J. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appeals. Tbe evidence of Fell and wife was given through an interpreter, and it was and is difficult to know the true meaning of evidence so secured. Haines v. People, 82 111. 430; People v. Barberi, 149 N. Y. 269, 52 Am. St. Rep, 717, 43 N. E. 635; The Oder, 8 Fed. 172. Such testimony is also untrustworthy because of the inability to give the witness any adequate cross-examination. United States v. Lee Huen, 118 Fed. 463. We have no test of the truth of human testimony except its…
1Opinion of the CourtFisk, J.
Action to recover on a fire insurance policy. Such policy contains the usual stipulation that “this policy shall be void . . . *357if the insured, now has or shall hereafter obtain any other insurance on said property without the assent of the company,” etc. There was other insurance on the property, and the defense is that the policy is void because such other insurance was not assented to by the defendant company. This issue was, by consent, tried to the court, a jury having been waived. Such trial resulted in findings and conclusions favorable to plaintiff, and judgment in accordance therewith…
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