McClain v. Hickey

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

The several parties to this appeal and their legal counsel appeared for the trial of the merits of this case in the district court. Preliminary to the introduction of evidence, at the court’s suggestion, attorneys for the parties entered into settlement negotiations. Reports on the progress of negotiations were made from time to time to the trial judge. Trial of the action was concluded when the trial judge withdrew the case from the jury docket and signed and entered a draft of judgment presented to him by counsel for the parties other than the appellants, Fulton and…