Scott v. Delk

The deposition of the witness Mitchell was excluded on the ground that the cross interrogatories, propounded by the plaintiff, were not answered. The answers of the witness, it is true, were not repeated at length to the cross interrogatories; for the reason that the interrogatories contained nothing touching which he had not fully answered in his responses to the interrogatories in chief; and he answered the cross interrogatories by simply referring to his previous answers, where the information sought was given. Perhaps in strictness, the plaintiff had a right to have the answers repeated…