Brown v. Woolverton

For the purpose of selecting the jury to try this case 24 jurors were brought into court, and plaintiff’s counsel questioned them at length as to their connection with defendants’ insurance carrier, and with any other such carrier, and their business affairs generally. It developed that one juror (Drake) was a partner with another who conducts a general real estate and insurance business, including casualty coverages of the nature involved in the pending case; that such partnership had no connection with the coverage in question nor the carrier covering the risk; that said partnership had…