Stern Fish Co. v. Snowden

The following excerpt from the charge forms the basis of one of defendant’s exceptive assignments of error and appears too wide of the mark to be sustained under any rule of interpretation or construction:

“Gentlemen of the Jury, now each one cannot be indebted to the other, to the extent of your answering both of these issues in some amount for each of these parties. If you answer the first issue, that is: Is the defendant indebted to the plaintiff as alleged in the complaint, and if so, in what amount? Why then, Gentlemen, the second issue, you’d answer that nothing, because if the defendant…