DEEN, Judge.
"Witnesses do not belong to one party more than another," was an early maxim of Justice William Howard Taft. Shaw v. Ohio Edison Co., 90 Ohio Dec. 809, 812. "The object of all legal investigation is the discovery of truth." Code § 38-101. Modern jurisprudential concepts veer away from the old chancery practice shielding the identity of a party's witnesses, and seek to lessen the element of surprise so that the trial may be a search for justice...
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