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Francis L. Wellman. The Art of Cross-Examination
The Art of Cross-Examination
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II
THE MANNER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER III
THE MATTER OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER IV
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE PERJURED WITNESS
CHAPTER V
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF EXPERTS
CHAPTER VI
THE SEQUENCE OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER VII
SILENT CROSS-EXAMINATION
CHAPTER VIII
CROSS-EXAMINATION TO CREDIT, AND ITS ABUSES
CHAPTER IX
GOLDEN RULES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
CHAPTER X
SOME FAMOUS CROSS-EXAMINERS AND THEIR METHODS
CHAPTER XI
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RICHARD PIGOTT BY SIR CHARLES RUSSELL BEFORE THE PARNELL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XII
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF DR. ——IN THE CARLYLE W. HARRIS CASE
CHAPTER XIII
THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CASE
CHAPTER XIV
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF JEREMIAH SMITH BY SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN IN THE WILLIAM PALMER CASE
CHAPTER XV
THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE BY MR. JOSEPH H. CHOATE IN THE LAIDLAW-SAGE CASE
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Francis L. Wellman
With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases
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It may not be uninteresting to record in this connection one or two cases illustrative of matter that is valuable in cross-examination in personal damage suits where the sole object of counsel is to reduce the amount of the jury's verdict, and to puncture the pitiful tale of suffering told by the plaintiff in such cases.
A New York commission merchant, named Metts, sixty-six years of age, was riding in a Columbus Avenue open car. As the car neared the curve at Fifty-third Street and Seventh Avenue, and while he was in the act of closing an open window in the front of the car at the request of an old lady passenger, the car gave a sudden, violent lurch, and he was thrown into the street, receiving injuries from which, at the time of the trial, he had suffered for three years.
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