Principle

APPELLATE PRACTICE — Interference with Findings of Fact — Circumstances for Interference

Area of law
APPELLATE PRACTICE
Court
Supreme Court

Appellate courts defer to trial court findings due to the advantage of seeing witnesses. Interference is justified only in specific circumstances: (1) failure to properly use the opportunity of seeing witnesses; (2) drawing wrong conclusions from accepted evidence; (3) erroneous view of evidence; (4) perverse…

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