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At trial, during the plaintiff's case-in-chief, the plaintiff called as a witness the managing agent of the defendant corporation, who was then sworn in and testified. Defense counsel objected to the plaintiff's questions either as leading or as impeaching the witness. In ruling on the objections, the trial court should

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  1. sustain all the objections and require the plaintiff to pursue this type of interrogation only during the plaintiff's cross-examination of this witness during the defendant's case-in-chief.
  2. sustain the leading question objections but overrule the other objections because a party is not permitted to ask leading questions of his own witness at trial.
  3. sustain the impeachment questions but overrule the other objections because a party is not permitted to impeach his own witness at trial.
  4. overrule all the objections because the witness is adverse to the plaintiff and therefore may be interrogated by leading questions and subjected to impeachment.

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