Houser v. Brown

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a claim case, on the trial of which, it being near night, the parties agreed “ that the court might direct the jury, that after they had made up their verdict, they could write it out and let the foreman sign it, put it in his pocket, and bring it into court at nine o’clock the next morning ; and that after they had made the verdict and written it out, signed and sealed it up and given it to the foreman, they could disperse and be at large until nine o’clock the next morning.” The jury found the property subject to the fi. fa. levied thereon, and in accordance…