California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cortez v. Weymouth, 235 Cal.App.2d 140, 45 Cal.Rptr. 63 (Cal. App. 1965):
'The trial court is the sole judge of the weight and effect of testimony and of the credibility of witnesses, and is free to disbelieve them, even though they are uncontradicted, if there is any rational ground for doing so.'
Defendants quote from Gridley v. Tilson, 202 Cal. 748, 752, 262 P. 322, 323, as follows:
'Defendant, however, attempts to escape the effect of the settled rule of these cases by testifying that he did
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