60-452. Offer to compromise and the like, not evidence of liability. - Kansas Statutes

60-452

Chapter 60.--PROCEDURE, CIVIL Article 4.--RULES OF EVIDENCE

      60-452.   Offer to compromise and the like, not evidence of liability.Evidence that a person has, in compromise or from humanitarian motivesfurnished or offered or promised to furnish money, or any other thing, actor service to another who has sustained or claims to have sustained loss ordamage, is inadmissible to prove his or her liability for the loss or damage ofany part of it. This section shall not affect the admissibility of evidence(a) of partial satisfaction of an asserted claim on demand withoutquestioning its validity, as tending to prove the validity of the claim, or(b) of a debtor's payment or promise to pay all or a part of his or herpre-existing debt as tending to prove the creation of a new duty on his or herpart, or a revival of his or her pre-existing duty.

      History:   L. 1963, ch. 303, 60-452; Jan. 1, 1964.