Porter v. Ninth Avenue Railroad

This was an action to recover for damages to plaintiff’s automobile resulting from a collision with one of defendant’s trolley cars.

In the midst of the trial an unfortunate colloquy occurred between the court and defendant’s counsel in which counsel was severely reprimanded for insolence and directed to take his seat and to behave himself. It is urged that there was no justification for these directions, but while the record contains nothing preceding this *705passage which explains its occurrence, it is quite immaterial, so far as the trial is concerned, whether the reprimand was justified or…