Porter v. Jack's Cookie Company, Inc.

Bell, Judge.

Counsel for both parties have devoted considerable research to the question whether the defendant had the right to cross-examine, without direct examination, a witness who had been called for cross-examination by the plaintiff.

The plaintiff cross-examined the witness under the authority of Code § 38-1801, as amended, Which, in part, provides that either party may make the agent of the other party a witness with the privilege of subjecting him to a thorough and sifting examination and with the further privilege of impeachment as if the witness had testified in his own behalf and…