Sutton Bros. v. Hancock

Defendant in error, G-lenwo'od Hancock, a young man of eighteen or nineteen years of age, recovered a verdict and judgment against plaintiffs in error in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for personal injuries. This writ of error is to review that judgment.

Plaintiffs in error rely on the fellow servant doctrine, variation in the proof from the allegation of the declaration, and improper remarks of plaintiffs’ counsel in his address to the jury, as grounds for reversal.

As to the latter it is sufficient to1 say that the remarks of plaintiffs’ counsel in his argument to the jury to the effect…