Barnett v. Clouse

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Hodges.

Plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below and *565will hereafter be so designated, have sued out writs of error from judgments of dismissal in these two consolidated cases. This litigation arises out of a dispute concerning the building of a house and centers about plaintiffs’ note which they executed to the builder in partial payment for the house and lot.

The court is confronted with a record which is confused and unsatisfactory in many respects. The proceedings in the trial court deprived all parties of an orderly litigation of their respective claims, and the…