Casualty Insurance Co. of California v. Salinas

“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.” Proverbs, 22:28.

For more than forty years it has been the holding of this Court that before this Court would take jurisdiction of a complaint about the admission or rejection of evidence the evidence must be “controlling” or the case must “turn” upon the evidence point. The majority opinion herein sets aside and overrules this holding and seeks to substitute a holding that this Court has jurisdiction to correct an error relating to the admission or exclusion of testimony where it is made to appear that the action of the trial…