Travent, Ltd. v. Schecter

FARMER, Judge.

In this negligence action, the jury returned a verdict finding in favor of the defendant. Plaintiffs counsel asked that the jury be polled. To the question, “[i]s this your verdict,” one juror responded “no.” At that point, the trial judge explained that the verdict is supposed to be unanimous. To this, the juror explained:

“It’s ours as a group.... But that doesn’t — How can I explain this? When we discussed everything, that’s what we came up with, but there is just some additional feelings involved. Maybe I answered the question incorrectly. It is our verdict.”

The court then…