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I once sat on a jury for a personal injury trial. The medical expert witness for the insurance company was an orthopedic surgeon who was renowned as one of the best in the area. The witness for the plaintiff was the head of her department and the man who literally trained her to do her work professionally.

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And?

Your comment could almost be intriguing, but as you left it is almost meaningless. Here's personA acting as a witness, but the counter witness is personA's ex-boss just isn't too usefull. Have you 100% always agreed lock-step with whatever your boss has said? Is it impossible that the student becomes the master becoming better than the teacher?

I'm just not really sure the point to which you were trying to make.

Maybe his point was that those witnesses would most likely agree on the topic at hand, but are on opposite sides of the argument.

And maybe it wasn't the point. But we'll never know because it was an incomplete thought. Hence the question being asked rather than just making something up

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