CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Method of Exam: Cross-Exam
......Adverse Witnesses
.........Who is Not Adverse
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Appraiser hired by party to value property, then later discharged, not identified with that party such as to permit his being called as adverse witness.

Where relationship between party and consultant is that of independent contractor rather than agent or employee, may not examine as adverse witness.

Subscribing witness to will not adverse despite her husband's being devisee, as what he received would be his separate property.

Employee of D subcontractor is not adverse witness.