The Witnesses to the Accident

Series: Action at Law Series

Duration: 30

Genre: Educational | Legal

Year Published: 1958

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents and dramatizes a civil lawsuit based on an automobile injury case. Dramatizes the defendant's first meeting with his lawyer and the filing of an answer to the plaintiff's petition. Demonstrates how the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defendant take depositions of the principal parties to the dispute. Shows how the witnesses to the accident are questioned and their statements recorded.

Complete Record: Documents and dramatizes a civil lawsuit based on an automobile injury case. Dramatizes the defendant's first meeting with his lawyer and the filing of an answer to the plaintiff's petition. Demonstrates how the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defendant take depositions of the principal parties to the dispute. Shows how the witnesses to the accident are questioned and their statements recorded., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.