Sutherland v. Woodring

Grice, Justice.

The Court of Appeals certified to this court the following question: “Is the defendant in a civil case entitled to the opening and concluding arguments where the plaintiff’s counsel calls him to the stand for the purpose of cross-examination, and where the defendant’s counsel examines the defendant while on the stand in such circumstances on material issues in the case, after the completion of the cross-examination of the defendant by plaintiff’s counsel, nothing further in the way of evidence of any other kind having been introduced by the defendant?”

In Martin v. Martin, 180…