Gus Gutfreund & Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court — Hon. W. S. Ayres, Judge. Appeal by defendants from an order overruling a motion for new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
m , • Trial : delibera“qw>tieut^’U1'y: verdicts. Neither the nature of the action nor the issues involved on the trial are disclosed in the abstract. The verdict was for $101.83, and it is said that the jurors, in arriving thereat, were guilty of misconduct in that ’ 55 J ^ley ^turned a quotient verdict. Six of them made affidavit that:
“We first agreed that each juror would mark down a certain sum which they thought the plaintiff was entitled to recover as his measure of damages and divide the sum by twelve. That said agreement was first entered into and agreed to by all the jurors and then…
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