Weeks v. Reliance Fertilizer Co.

1. Under the settled and fundamental policy of our law as embodied in section 4863 of the Civil Code of 1910, it is reversible error for the trial judge to express or to intimate his opinion as to what has or has not been proved; but the court may properly propound questions to a witness with a view to eliciting the truth of the case, especially where the purpose of such interrogation is to render definite the meaning of testimony otherwise vague, provided that in so doing no expression or impression is given of any opinion held by the judge as to what has been proved, or- as to the…