Grist v. Schoenburg

Citations

• 115 Wash. 335
• 197 P. 35
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 734

Syllabus

<p>Witnesses (72) —Examination — Discretion op Court. Uniler Rem. Code, §§ 1225, 1229, authorizing the examination of an adverse party with the privilege of rebutting his testimony, the denial of the right to cross-examine a party on matter properly a part of a litigant’s case would not constitute error.</p> <p>New Trial (13%)—Grounds—Misconduct op Jurors in General. Prejudice of jurors against some of a party’s witnesses, coming to his knowledge in the course of the trial and before verdict, is not ground for new trial.</p> <p>Same (37)—Newly Discovered Evidence—Materiality—Cumulative Evidence. Under the rule that newly discovered evidence must be very material and such as might reasonably be expected to change the result in order to justify the granting of a new trial, the refusal of a new trial was proper where the evidence produced in support of the motion was merely contradictory of a collateral fact.</p>