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(1) Subject to the discretion of the court, in a civil action a party, or a person whose relationship to a party makes his interest substantially the same as a party, may be called by any adverse party and examined as if on cross-examination at any time during the presentation of evidence by the party calling the witness.

(2) When such a witness is cross-examined by his own lawyer or by a party who is not adverse to the party with whom the witness is related that examination is to be treated as if it were a re-examination.