Depew v. Hanover Insurance

RULING ON EVIDENCE

NEESE, District Judge.

On March 25, 1977 the Court allowed the amendment of the pretrial order herein so as to add thereto the ñames of 7 persons listed as witnesses for the defendants herein. It is proposed that 5 of such witnesses will testify as to certain declarations of Mr. Fred Minor, now deceased, and that the sum and substance thereof will be that Mr. Minor stated that he “ * * * committed the arson and burning of the J. C. Trent Company and did so at the instigation and payment by [the plaintiff herein] Porter Depew." As might be expected, the plaintiffs claim that…