Sorensen v. Hunter

Judgment and order reversed on the law and facts and a new trial granted, with costs to the appellant to abide the event. Memorandum: The jury in these cases, which were tried together, was not selected in the immediate presence of the trial justice, now a common and accepted practice. The trial justice gave no instructions to the parties relative to the practice to be followed in the impaneling of the jury. Before the jury had been sworn, counsel for the plaintiffs peremptorily challenged the juror Ford, after having tentatively accepted him as a juror. The clerk said “ juror Ford excused.”…