What constitutes substantial evidence in a civil case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Morales v. Novoa, E065627 (Cal. App. 2017):
The testimony of a single witness whom the trier of fact finds credible is substantial evidence, unless the facts testified to are physically impossible or inherently improbable. (People v. Young (2005) 34 Cal.4th 1149, 1181.) The court could rationally have found defendant's testimony credible and found plaintiff's testimony not credible as to the true ownership of the property, and we must infer that it did so. Accordingly,
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