Steel v. Levy

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

The records of these two cases disclose more mistakes by counsel and errors by the court, than usually appear in judicial proceedings, — the errors probably resulting from the court’s desire to straighten out the mistakes of counsel, and to expedite the determination of suits which he believed should not have been begun. Happily the appeals are sufficiently alike to enable us to dispose of them in a single opinion.

In the first case, speaking generally and tersely, plaintiff sought to recover, under one statement of claim, for money loaned to defendant; for salary…