Park v. Zellars

1. The provisions of the Civil Code, § 5905 et seq., in. regard to the taking of testimony by depositions, are general, and are applicable, among others, to instances where it is sought to cross-examine a witness who, in response to direct interrogatories duly propounded, had previously given his testimony in the case, although the party thus seeking to cross-examine the witness had been afforded ample opportunity to propound cross-interrogatories in the first instance and had failed to do so.(a) It affords no ground to exclude the depositions so taken that one of the persons who had acted as…