Whitman v. Whitman

On cross-examination, defense counsel asked the plaintiff whether he did not know the defendant had been convicted of drunkenness, driving without a license, violating the prohibition laws, and in 1955 “. . . of operating an automobile intoxicated.” The court sustained the plaintiff’s objection to all of the foregoing questions as to the defendant’s court record beginning in 1941. When the defense counsel asked permission to have the answers of the witness inserted in the record, the court made this ruling: “Well, I will make this statement in the presence of the jury, that it is not what he…