Gates v. . Beecher

The general cross-interrogatory must be answered as well as the particular ones, and if it is not put and answered the deposition taken on commission will, in general, be suppressed. (Kimball v. Davis, 19 Wend., 437.) The reason given for this requirement is this, that unless it is done, it is impossible to say that the witness has told the whole truth. (S.C. in error, 25 Wend., 259, 268.)

In the case before us, as appears from the printed book, there were sixteen cross-interrogatories, the sixteenth being the general one. They were, beyond doubt, answered seriatim up to and including the…