Opinion ID: 361085
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: multiple trials and requested charges.

Text: 9 The trial court recognized that it was unusual to try a jury case by multiple presentations of evidence, arguments to the jury, and charges by the court. However, Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides for the separate trial of any claim for expedition and economy. Moreover, when the trial court announced that it would handle this case, with some 16 separate defenses, by submitting all issues that had not been abandoned by the parties to the jury by separate interrogatories, appellant's counsel did not object. We conclude that no error occurred thereabout. 10 We have considered the contention that the trial court erred in failing to include requests to charge numbers 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 submitted by the defendants in light of the entire charge to the jury and conclude that the charge as given adequately covered the issues dealing with the question of fraud in the inception of the contracts. Appellant's brief does not indicate what issue was sought to be presented by the proposed charges which was not contained adequately in the charge as given. We find no prejudicial error here. 11