Morris Cohon & Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp.

Judgment in favor of plaintiff reversed, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, the verdict vacated and a new trial ordered, without costs to either party. The *668jury, in a closely contested case involving an alleged oral agreement for substantial commissions, was provided with confused and disconnected proof presented in a disorderly atmosphere of bickering and acrimony. The primary responsibility for this condition was the conduct of trial counsel for both sides, who repeatedly engaged in unseemly protracted exchanges, into which they drew the Trial Justice. Indeed, from the inception…