Knapp Ex Rel. Thayer v. Stone

In answer to what was considered to be an insinuation by counsel for the defendant that plaintiff’s counsel had suggested the testimony given by the plaintiff, his counsel said in the course of his argument: “I am the only counsel in this case, and I can say co you, gentlemen, in answer to my brother’s argument that I have not . . . told young Richard Knapp how to make up his story, or how to swear to it.” To this statement the defendant excepted. If there was evidence from which the inference could be drawn that plaintiff’s testimony was suggested by counsel it could not properly be answered…