Wallace v. American Life Insurance

BURNETT, J

In this case we are confronted with the evil of a plethoric record when the vital issues of the case are properly condensed within narrow limits. On the former hearing the principal things decided were that under the pleadings as they then existed there was sufficient evidence to take to the jury the question of defendant’s breach of the contract; that expert testimony as to the value of the contract to the plaintiff was not admissible and that a certain letter offered in evidence was rightly excluded on the ground that it was an offer of compromise: Wallace v. American Life Ins.…