Sangster v. Van Heck

The minor plaintiff sued to recover for personal injuries and his father sought recovery of necessary medical costs. After a 2-day trial the cause was submitted to the jury, with appropriate verdict forms and a special interrogatory submitted by defendant. The interrogatory asked whether the minor plaintifFs contributory negligence was a proximate cause of his injury. The parties then waived their rights to be present and to poll the jury when it would return with a verdict, and that the jury should be discharged when it delivered its sealed verdict to the clerk. Later, after the jury had…