The answer stated that only the insured's consent was necessary to settle. When Terrell asked for proof, the church obliged, sending the voluminous policy without the two key pages that supported their interrogatory answer. The letter arrived without the document the lawyer said she was forwarding. The 500 pages of business records copied for you by opposing counsel is missing sales receipts for the three days in question. Changes were made to the latest version of the contract based on the first round of negotiations, not the second.
Every dog gets one bite.
When it is the critical information that is missing, you do start to question it. In smaller communities, lawyers' reputations precede them. Wichita, Kansas, lawyer Dwight Corrin had a slightly more difficult time getting a dirty trick resolved favorably. Corrin had traveled out of town to take depositions in a case where his client had been left a paraplegic. Toward the end of the first day, the opposing counsel told Corrin that he needed to cancel the next day's scheduled deposition of one of Corrin's experts.