Fleischner v. Beaver

Citations

• 21 Wash. 6
• 56 P. 840
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 230

Syllabus

<p>CROSS-EXAMINATION — PROPER LIMITS.</p> <p>Whether or not a cross-examination' has reached, the proper limit, is a matter within the discretion of the court, and its refusal to permit further cross-examination upon points already gone over is not error.</p> <p>APPEAL — ERRORS NOT RAISED BELOW — REMARKS OF COURT.</p> <p>Error cannot he predicated upon remarks made by the court during trial, when no objection was interposed at the time, nor the court’s attention called thereto.</p> <p>QUESTION FOR JURY — PROPRIETY OF WITNESS’S ACTIONS.</p> <p>Whether questions put by an insurance adjuster to the assured, when adjusting a loss, were proper or impertinent, is not a matter for the jury to determine.</p> <p>INSTRUCTIONS-RELEVANCY TO FACTS PROVEN.</p> <p>It is not error for the court to charge the jury that they should regard with caution testimony as to admissions made by the defendant, coming from witnesses antagonistic to defendant, as it is to be presumed the court was informed of the attitude of the witnesses, from hearing them testify.</p>