Using answer to interrogatories at trial
Full Text
Any party may, at the trial of a suit, use in evidence any one or more of the answers or any part of an answer of the opposite party to interrogatories without putting in the others or the whole of such answer: Provided always that in such case the Court may look at the whole of the answers, and if it shall be of opinion that any others of them are so connected with those put in that the last-mentioned answer ought not to be used without them, it may direct them to be put in.
Plain English Summary
Permits a party at trial to tender in evidence select answers or portions of answers to interrogatories without tendering the whole, subject to the court's power to require interconnected answers to be read together.
Key Legal Elements
- Selective Tendering in Evidence: Party is not forced to adopt unfavorable answers.
- Judicial Prudence Proviso: Court prevents distorted or out-of-context reliance by directing interconnected answers to be taken on record.
- Substantive Evidence: Tenders form part of the evidentiary record at final arguments.
Practical Note
Trial Tactics with Interrogatories: At the stage of final arguments or during examination-in-chief, mark the favorable sworn answer to the interrogatory as an Exhibit (e.g. Ex. P-12). If the opponent selectively quotes half a sentence, invoke the proviso to compel the court to read the explanatory qualification.
हिंदी पाठ
कोई भी पक्षकार वाद के विचारण में, विरोधी पक्षकार के परिप्रश्नों के उत्तरों में से किसी एक या अधिक को अथवा किसी उत्तर के किसी भाग को साक्ष्य में अन्य उत्तरों को या ऐसे संपूर्ण उत्तर को रखे बिना उपयोग में ला सकेगा: परन्तु सर्वदा यह कि ऐसे मामले में न्यायालय संपूर्ण उत्तरों को देख सकेगा, और यदि उसकी यह राय हो कि उनमें से कोई अन्य उत्तर उन रखे गए उत्तरों से इस प्रकार जुड़े हैं कि अंतिम उल्लिखित उत्तर का उनके बिना उपयोग नहीं किया जाना चाहिए, तो वह उन्हें भी रखे जाने का निदेश दे सकेगा।