Principle

APPELLATE PRACTICE — Concurrent Findings of Fact — When Supreme Court Will Interfere

Area of law: APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will not interfere with concurrent findings of fact by two lower courts unless the findings are perverse. Perversity means no reasonable tribunal could have reached that conclusion on the evidence. The appellant bears the burden of demonstrating perversity. Concurrent findings carry great…

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