Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Resurrection Gold Min. Co. v. Fortune Gold Min. Co.

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided April 14, 1904No. 1,789Published

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.

1ConcurrenceHook, Circuit Judge

I concur in the result announced, and also in what is said in support thereof, excepting in one particular. I concur in the view that reversible error was committed in the *681exclusion of the question propounded to the witness, McNeece on cross-examination. An authority directly in point is Eames v. Kaiser, 142 U. S. 488, 12 Sup. Ct. 302, 35 L. Ed. 1091. As applicable to this matter, it is said in the foregoing opinion that a fair and full cross-examination of a witness upon the subjects of his examination in chief is the absolute right, and not the mere privilege, of the party against whom he…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Philadelphia & Trenton Railroad v. StimpsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1840
  2. Ballew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  3. Northern Pacific Railroad v. UrlinSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  4. State v. PfefferleSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
  5. Rea v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1873

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