Legal Opinion
Ward v. St. Mary Medical Center of Gary
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 12, 1995No. 45S03-9506-CV-624PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SULLIVAN, Justice.
This case requires us to reaffirm an established tenet of our state's jurisprudence: a jury's verdiet may not be impeached by testimony of the jurors who returned it.
Facts
Roosevelt Ward, Sr. (Ward) filed a complaint alleging malpractice against St. Mary Medical Center (St. Mary) on September 19, 1992, after suffering a tear in his bladder during a needle biopsy performed at St. Mary.
At the trial, during deliberations, the jury sent a note to the trial court requesting to make a statement before or after the verdict was read. Neither counsel objected to…
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