Wilson v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

Hall, Judge.

After a verdict for the defendant the plaintiff appeals from the judgment denying his extraordinary motion for new trial. The ground of the motion was that one of the jurors who tried the case was a brothér-in-law of the defendant’s claim agent, who assisted railroad attorneys in the preparation of the case by investigating prospective jurors and interviewing witnesses in behalf of the railroad and sat at the counsel table throughout the trial as the representative of the railroad, and that this fact was unknown and not reasonably discoverable by the plaintiff prior to the…