Summers v. Greathouse

The appellant asked the court to submit interrogatories to the jury called to try the cause} the request was granted, and twenty-five interrogatories were submitted. After the jury had been deliberating for some time the court withdrew the interrogatories and directed the jury to return .a general verdict.

The statute, in express terms, confers upon parties the right to submit special interrogatories, and this court has again and again decided that it is error to refuse to compel answers to relevant and proper questions. It is certainly error to withdraw proper interrogatories after they have…