Hatfield v. Cheaney

Citations

• 76 Ill. 488

Syllabus

<p>1. Pleading—plea not answering all it professes. A plea must contain, a good answer to all it professes to answer. Wlien it is in bar of the whole action and its matter is but an answer to a part of the cause of action, it is bad on demurrer.</p> <p>2 Practice—giving jury memorandum of calculation. It is not cor. rect practice to.permit a witness, who makes a computation of the sum due on a note, to place a memorandum of the result on the note itself to go to the jury. The testimony of witnesses in open court should go to the jury orally, and not by means of memoranda.</p>