Clackler v. Barnwell

The evidence is sufficient on behalf of the defendant to sustain the verdict.

The first special ground of the motion for a new trial complains that the court committed reversible error in allowing counsel for the defendant to question the plaintiff concerning insurance, by asking him if he had not assigned his claim to the Bankers’ Indemnity Insurance Company, and in so doing, permitted the injection of the question of insurance, which the plaintiff might have held and which was wholly irrelevant and immaterial and highly improper. When the question was propounded to the plaintiff, his…