Cooper v. Singleton

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), J.

Harvard Law School Professor Edmund M. Morgan, one of the legendary titans of the law of presumptions, said of the subject as early as 1937:

Every writer of sufficient intelligence to appreciate the difficulties of the subject-matter has approached the topic of presumptions with a sense of hopelessness and has left it with a feeling of despair.[ 1 ]

The first of the early titans was James Bradley Thayer who, even before the turn of the 20th Century, had observed:

[T]he numberless propositions figuring in our cases under the name of…