Wilson v. Wapello County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court.— Hon. F. W. Eichelberger, Judge. Action at law to recover damages growing out of the death of W. M. Wilson, plaintiffs intestate, and which death was occasioned, as alleged, by the negligence of the defendant county in permitting a county bridge to remain in a defective and dangerous condition. Upon trial there was a verdict and judgment in favor of defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
3. challenge fntoestasa taxpayer. I. This action was commenced in January, 1903, and was reached for trial upon the issues joined in December, 1904. As the jury was being impaneled, the plaintiff challenged for cause each of the individual jurors called into the box who made answer that he was a property owner and taxpayer in the county. The ground of challenge Was that the juror was “ incompetent because of showing such a state of mind as would preclude him from rendering a just verdict in said cause.” The several challenges were overruled, and, after exhausting her right of peremptory…
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