T. & P. R'y Co. v. Scott

Robertson, Associate Justice.

In a charge to the jury a long statement of the contents of the pleadings can serve no useful purpose. It rather confuses than enlightens the jury, increases the costs of litigation, and swells to endless proportions the record here and in the court below. In the single half page of the seven and one-half pages thus occupied in this record, the issues the jury were to pass upon could have been clearly and fully stated. In the statement of facts, the repeated statements of one witness cover thirty pages, all of whose material testimony could easily have been put…