413, 19 C..C. A. 286, 88 L. R. A. 33.—Principal fact. In the law of evidence. <A fact sought and roposed to be proved by evidence of other cts (termed “evidentiary facts’) from which it is to be deduced by inference. A fact which is the principal and ultimate object of an inuiry, and respecting the existence of which a definite belief is uired to be formed. 3