Langston v. Maryland Casualty Co.

1. There is no law or rule which requires agreements between counsel, when made in open court, to be in writing. Such is not the requirement of sections 6221 and 6278 of the Civil Code of 1910, which have reference to proceedings only in the Supreme Court and the superior court respectively.

2. An agreement between counsel, made upon the hearing of a claim for compensation before one of the industrial commissioners, that the claimant is to be examined by a physician and that the physician’s report thereon be made without an examination of the physician as a witness, is not unenforceable by…