Gottfried v. Gottfried

Defendants examined by plaintiffs as adverse parties before trial move to suppress their depositions because their request for cross-examination by their own counsel was denied. The denial was by an Official Referee presiding at Special Term; Part II, and a preliminary objection is made that defendants cannot complain, of a ruling they themselves invoked, and, also, that they cannot ask a co-ordinate branch of the court to reverse the Referee.

I think that untenable. 1. Defendants asked for a ruling and their counsel acquiesced in the Referee’s intimation that American Worcestershire Sauce Co.…