In a motor collision case before the Supreme Court yesterday counsel was pressing a witness for precise answers as to distances, angles, etc., when the harried witness, losing patience said, “Well. sir. do you think you could answer those questions if you had had an ironbark telegraph pole within a few yards of you and coming at you at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour?” The bench smiled, the ing counsel grinned, the onlookers tittered, the tipstaff called ••Order!’’ and the cross-examination was switched off onto another line.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 283, 15 November 1923, Page 6
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