Learned v. Godfrey

SEILER, Judge.

The question for decision is whether a challenge for cause under Sec. 495.150, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., a statute relating to jurors in counties of 60,000 to 100,000 population, extends only to jurors who are in the employ of one who is a client of a lawyer in the case, or does it include a juror who is himself a client of one of the lawyers.

In the case before us — a personal injury suit won by the defendant — the trial court granted plaintiff a new trial for failure to strike two jurors challenged for cause under the above statute. The two jurors were clients of two of the partners…