Commercial Solvents, Inc. v. Johnson

The defendants’ chief assignments of error challenge the action of the trial court in (1) excluding evidence proffered by the defendants in support of their counterclaim, (2) allowing the motion for judgment of nonsuit on the counterclaim, and (3) the charge of the court on the issue of debt in the plaintiff’s action.

1. The excluded evidence and judgment of nonsuit in respect to the counterclaim. — The excluded testimony consists of a mass of extrajudicial declarations and statements allegedly made by the plaintiff’s agent Snyder, by which the defendants sought to prove that the plaintiff…