Evtush v. the Hudson Bus Transportation Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Ackekson, J.

The basic question presented by this joint appeal is whether there was trial error in admitting, over the objection of the plaintiffs’ attorney, the testimony of defense witnesses whose names were known but not disclosed in response to an interrogatory soliciting the names and addresses of witnesses to the accident involved in the litigation.

These cases are death actions which arose out of the following occurrence: On October 20, 1946, William Evtush and Connell Beasley were riding together on the latter’s motorcycle and while attempting to…