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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 3,673.
    DAY v. BOSTON BELTING CO.
    Examination of Witnesses—Impektinent Questions—Protection.
    1. The law gives no color to the practice which not unfrequently appears in judicial proceedings, of besetting a witness with impertinent inquiries, which are not shown to have any legitimate bearing upon the case.
    2. Whether a witness may claim exemption from answering a question, because his knowledge of the matter inquired of was obtained by him as an attorney in such character; query.
    [NOTE. Cited in Law, Dig. 299, to the points stated above. Nowhere more fully reported; opinion not now accessible.]