Johnson v. Slappey

Blandford, Justice.

This was a claim case, aud upon the trial of the claim in the court below, counsel went out of the record to discuss the merits of the case in which the judgment was rendered upon which was issued the execution levied on the property claimed in the present case. This is complained of in the 4th ground of the motion for a new trial, which alleges that the court erred in permitting Mr. E. G. Simmons, one of the attorneys *577for the claimant, in his concluding argument to the jury, over objection of plaintiff’s counsel, to argue to the jury the merits of the original case between…