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Show 5423 Yokey- C 3434 go and something to take. MR. FARNSWORTH: I don't know in what text or cases the principle of law announced by counsel appears. THE SPECIAL MASTER: I suppose a man would be willing to accept contract to take freight and passengers to a place where there wasn't any place of landing, if anybody was foolish enough to pay him. I don't see that has much to do with it. MR. BLACKMAR: It is like Mr. Farnsworth's question to a witness today, if he could ho up the river if he had unlimited power. A man could go to the moon, or Mars, if he had unlimited power. MR, FARNSWORTH: I think counsel, in his objec-tion, your Honor, failes to distinguish between the proper limits of cross examination and direct examination, and also fails to distinguish between the form of a question that is entirely proper on cross examination and that would be grossly improper on direct examination. I have a right to ask a witness that is produced as a witness of experience here, like Mr. Yokey, on cross examina-tion, " You wouldn't hesitate to do so and so, would you", put that sort of thought in a thousand different ways in a ques-tion, merely to sound out the witness. Of course you couldn't do that on direct examination, it would be entirely improper; but entirely proper in cross examination, a type of question that in my practice I have |
