Marchand v. Public Service Co.

The plaintiffs called as their second witness John J. Connor who was the driver of the defendant’s bus, and proceeded at once to cross-examine him, apparently upon the assumption that he was a hostile witness although no permission to pursue this course was asked or granted, and no finding of hostility was made. The witness testified that he did not see the gingerale company’s truck until after the accident. Plaintiffs’ counsel then undertook to contradict him by confronting him with inconsistent statements made in his report to the police department of the city of Manchester. The witness…