Frangos v. Edmunds
Decision Date | 22 October 1946 |
Citation | 179 Or. 577,173 P.2d 596 |
Parties | FRANGOS <I>v.</I> EDMUNDS ET AL. |
Court | Oregon Supreme Court |
Witnesses — Trial judge — Duties
31. Trial judge is not a mere moderator but is the governor of trial for purpose of administering justice between parties, and trial judge may in exercise of sound discretion control examination of witnesses and may in furtherance of impartial justice examine a witness, though he should not indicate to jury his opinion on the merits, nor comment...
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Skeeters v. Skeeters
...hand is an uncomplicated one. He testified to the elements that make up a claim of partial paralysis and loss of use. In Frangos v. Edmunds, 179 Or. 577, 173 P.2d 596, we sustained the plaintiff's statement on the witness stand that after the accident he suffered pain in his eye with impair......
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State v. Patterson
...part of the trial as an error which calls for a new trial. Smith v. Sherwood, 95 Wis. 558, 70 N.W. 682 (1897)." Frangos v. Edmunds, 179 Or. 577, 599, 173 P.2d 596 (1946). The rule requiring the judge's presence at every stage of the criminal proceedings applies with equal force to the selec......
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Raz v. Mills
...same judgment and selection between alternative courses of escape as is expected when time is available for deliberation: Frangos v. Edmunds, 179 Or. 577, 173 P.2d 596, and Goebel v. Vaught, 126 Or. 332, 269 P. 491. Nevertheless, even though a motorist acts in an emergency, he does not find......
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Burghardt v. Olson
...statutory rules applied only to situations in which the evidence was exclusively in the possession of one party. Frangos v. Edmunds, 179 Or. 577, 595-596, 173 P.2d 596; Fitze v. American-Hawaiian S. S. Co., 167 Or. 439, 444-450, 117 P.2d 825. However, if the statutory rules cited are to app......
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