Parsons v. Huff
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions to the rulings of Tenney, J., presiding at Nisi Prius, and also on motion to set aside the verdict.- Trespass quare clausum. Plea, soil and freehold of defendant. Plaintiff offered the deposition of Quincy A. Parsons, which was objected to, on account of the insufficiency of the caption.
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On Exceptions to the rulings of Tenney, J., presiding at Nisi Prius, and also on motion to set aside the verdict.- Trespass quare clausum. Plea, soil and freehold of defendant. Plaintiff offered the deposition of Quincy A. Parsons, which was objected to, on account of the insufficiency of the caption. The part objected to was in these words;. “ the aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned, and before testifying was sworn to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and after giving the aforesaid deposition was duly sworn according to law to said deposition,” &c. The…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, J.
—It appears that ono of the jurymen, being very ill, was permitted by the Court during its adjournment, to leave the jury room for a short time, and retire to his lodgings; that upon the coming in of the Court at the hour of adjournment, the remainder of the jury, by consent of parties, separated for the purpose of obtaining breakfast; that they then, with the absent juryman, returned into Court, and after receiving additional instructions retired to their room and found the verdict which the counsel for the defendant now moves to set aside, on account of the absence of a sick juryman, under…
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