Veazie v. Columbia & Nehalem River R. R.

There can be little doubt that the conduct of the juror Wagner, as shown by this memorandum, which is borne out by the record in every respect, was highly prejudicial, and that he was wholly unfit to be a juror in this cause; and that plaintiffs would have been in a better position as regards a recovery had any one of defendant’s attorneys been upon the jury instead of the juror alluded to, because in that case their high sense of propriety would at least have caused them to deal fairly, whereas with Wagner on the jury the defendant evidently had the advantage of having a vicious and ignorant…