Reagan v. Hadley

The appellee, as plaintiff, sued the appellants, as defendants, in the court below.

Appellee’s complaint was in three paragraphs, and issues of law and fact were formed on each of these paragraphs ; but, before the final submission of the cause to> the jury, the appellee virtually abandoned the first and third paragraphs of his complaint, and the jury were so instructed by the court below.

In our examination of this cause, therefore, we will consider the second paragraph of appellee’s complaint alone, as if it were in fact, what it is in effect, the only complaint in the action.

In the second…