Perry v. Cottingham
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lucas Circuit Court. The defendants and others petitioned the board of supervisors of Lucas county for the establishment of a highway.
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Appeal from Lucas Circuit Court. The defendants and others petitioned the board of supervisors of Lucas county for the establishment of a highway. After the commissioner who was appointed to examine into the expediency of establishing such highway had reported favorably to its establishment, the plaintiff filed a claim for damages, which he alleged he would sustain in consequence of the establishment of said road, and, being dissatisfied with the amount awarded him by the appraisers appointed by the county auditor to assess the damages, he appealed to the circuit court of the county. There…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
As is shown-by the bill of exceptions, “the mo*42tion. for a new trial was sustained solely on tbe ground of misconduct of the juror, W. P. Willoughby, and solely as shown by the affidavit of J. H. Gowan on file.”
Gowan swears, in the affidavit referred to, that he had a conversation with the juror, while the trial of the cause was in progress, in which the juror stated, in effect, that the attorney who was trying the cause for defendants had mismanaged the case, and that he was not fit to attend to such a case against the attorney who represented the plaintiff in the trial, and that plaintiff…
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