Blodgett v. Park
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Debt, to recover the forfeiture given by section 1, chapter 244, Public Statutes, for the willful removal of timber trees. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff.
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Debt, to recover the forfeiture given by section 1, chapter 244, Public Statutes, for the willful removal of timber trees. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the November term, 1911, of the superior court by Plummer, J., on the defendant’s exceptions to a statement by the plaintiff’s counsel that “it costs money to prepare and tty a case such as we have been trying here for the past week,” to the admission of certain evidence, to the allowance of interest on the forfeiture from the time the trees were cut to the time of the trial, and to the exclusion of the…
1Opinion of the Court
It is common knowledge that litigation is expensive to the parties and to the public — so expensive, in fact, that the court is accustomed to advise jurors that they should agree if possible and stop the expense by ending the litigation. Ahearn v. Mann, 60 N.H. 472. It was competent, therefore, for the plaintiff's counsel to urge the jurors to agree on a verdict for that reason; and from all that appears, that was what he was doing when he made the remark excepted to. In other words, there is nothing to show that he made it, as the defendant contends, to induce the jury to give large damages.
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