Cook v. Douglas

Lewis, Justice.

This appeal concerns the right of the defendant, under the provisions of Section 26-701 of the 1962 Code of Laws, to require each of the plaintiffs in two separate actions brought against him to submit to oral pretrial examination as a witness in the action brought by the other.

*203The plaintiffs, Mrs. Jane Cook and Miss Shellie Cook, instituted separate actions against the defendant Ernest E. Douglas for the recovery of damages for personal injuries sustained by them in a collision of the automobile, in which they were riding, with an automobile driven by the defendant. The…