Case ID: ny-sup-ct_10/html/0616-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAM H. HALLOCK and another, Appellants, v. J. ORLANDO RANDALL, Respondent.
    
      Gross-examination —power of judge at circuit to limit.
    
    Appeal from a judgment in favor of the deféndant, entered upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
    The only question presented by the appeal, related to the exclusion of a question; asked upon the cross-examination of. a witness. The General Term held, that “ The question referred to, is one of that class which it is not error to admit or reject; there was so much testimony in the case, from different witnesses, that the judge at circuit might exercise the power in his judicial discretion, of limiting all examinations and cross-examinations within reasonable bounds.”
    
      Miller da Tuthill, for the appellants.
    
      Strong da Spear, for the respondent.
   Opinion by Tapper, J.

Present — Barnard, P. J., Tapper and Donohue, JJ.

Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.