Dugey v. Hughs Bros.

Opinion by

Will-son, J.

§ 4. Argument; right to open and conclude. A verbal admission of plaintiff’s cause of action made by defendant’s counsel, after the close of the evidence in the case, does not entitle the defendant to open and conclude the argument. When the defendant, before the trial commences, admits specifically the plaintiff’s cause of action, so as to relieve the plaintiff from adducing any proof, and causes this admission to be entered of record, then, and not till then, is he entitled to open and conclude the argument. [Rule 31 for Dist. Courts; W. & W. Con. Rep. § 834; Eastham…