Lafayette Plankroad Co. v. New Albany & Salem Railroad

This was a suit, in the nature of an action on the case, at common law, by The Lafayette Planhroad Company against The New Albany and Salem Railroad Company, to recover damages for injury done by the latter company to the former, in the construction of a railroad..

The plaintiff recovered on the first trial. The defendant moved for a new trial on two grounds—

1. That one of the jurors who sat upon the trial, was not a householder.

2. That one of the jurors who sat upon the trial, did not understand the English language.

The Court granted the new trial for the second cause.

We are not prepared to…