National Land & Coal Co. v. Zugar

1. The court did not err in permitting counsel for the defendant to cross-examine his own client after he had been- called to the stand by counsel for the plaintiff, although plaintiff’s counsel stated that he called him as a witness against himself in order to prove only one point necessary to making out a prima facie case. Though the rule in a large number of States' is to the contrary, this court has held that the provisions of the Code entitling one to make a thorough and sifting examination of a witness on cross-examination applies in such cases; and in the present case it was not…