Bunker v. Lott

MASSEY, 'Chief Justice.

Quare: Where several separate and distinct causes of action against a single defendant are consolidated and tried before a jury; after' verdict severed so that the causes are again made the subject of separate cases, judgment entered in such cases, and motions for new trial filed by varying losing parties under the various cases as so severed; — is the defendant (who is the losing party in one case) entitled to a new trial because of jury misconduct, or entitled to ground his appeal on such misconduct, when he has not advanced it as a ground in his last properly filed…