State ex rel. Wise v. Chand

As part of her case, complainant called defendant as if under cross-examination. Defendant being an adverse party, complainant’s calling of defendant was proper if the proceeding was a civil action. Section 2317.07, Revised Code. (This section, a portion of the Code of Civil Procedure, provides that “at the instance of the adverse party, a party may be examined as if under cross-examination * * V’)

In our unanimous decision in Taylor v. Scott, 168 Ohio St. 391, the question whether the Code of Civil Procedure is applicable to bastardy proceedings was settled. Paragraph one of the syllabus in…