Brown v. Best Products, Inc.

On appeal plaintiff-appellant asserts that the court of appeals erred in reversing the general verdict returned in favor of the plaintiff by the jury. The appellate court found that the trial court erred in allowing comment in opening and closing statements concerning the release allegedly executed between plaintiff and defendants, which ended her criminal prosecution. For reasons discussed herein we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.1

Paragraph one of the syllabus in Insurance Co. v. Hull (1894), 51 Ohio St. 270, states that “[a] contract, the consideration of which, in whole or in…