Bailey v. Town of Trumbull
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the statute, for an injury from a defect in a high-* way. Tried in the superior court before Phelps, J. Verdict for the plaintiff. Motion in arrest of judgment, and a motion for a new trial, by the defendants. The former motion, with the facts found upon it, was reserved with the latter for the advice of this court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
There is in this case a motion in arrest, on the ground that one of the jurors who tried it, and joined in the verdict, was the owner of real estate in the defendant town, and a tax-payer therein. No doubt this was such a disqualification of the juror, that, had the fact come to the knowledge of the court before the trial commenced, he would have been set aside and his place supplied by another. But the interest of the juror was altogether in favor of the town against which the verdict was rendered, and as the plaintiff does not complain of it, as perhaps she might, on the ground that she…
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