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For five-and-a-half years I’ve presided in that trial court in New York City. ... On the civil calendar the automobile accident was the bread and butter of it. God knows how many I presided over: hundreds, maybe even a thousand. Out of all of those cased and all of those lawyers, ladies and gentlemen, so help me, ''not once did I ever hear a lawyer use the word “car”. It was ''always'' “motor vehicle”. Not once did I ever hear a lawyer say to a witness, “how did you drive your car?” It was always, “what did you then do with respect to the operation and control of your motor vehicle?” | For five-and-a-half years I’ve presided in that trial court in New York City. ... On the civil calendar the automobile accident was the bread and butter of it. God knows how many I presided over: hundreds, maybe even a thousand. Out of all of those cased and all of those lawyers, ladies and gentlemen, so help me, ''not once did I ever hear a lawyer use the word “car”. It was ''always'' “motor vehicle”. Not once did I ever hear a lawyer say to a witness, “how did you drive your car?” It was always, “what did you then do with respect to the operation and control of your motor vehicle?” | ||
As if they were writing a trust [[indenture]] and in any event, that’s no way to write a trust indenture. | As if they were writing a trust [[indenture]] and in any event, that’s no way to write a trust indenture. | ||
:—Irving Younger: ''The Ten Commandments of Cross Examination''}} | :—Irving Younger: ''The Ten Commandments of Cross Examination''}} | ||