Brown v. Yettaw

How courts have described this case

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• “A trial [court] may elicit testimony from witnesses ... and in all proper ways may develop pertinent evidence not adduced by the parties themselves.”
• “Whether a trial court has abused its discretion in proceeding to trial and judgment in the absence of a party or his attorney must be determined upon the particular facts and circumstances in the case under consideration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).