Cowperthwaite v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
A MOTION in this a new trial having been made and argued in this cause, the PRESIDENT now delivered the opinion of the Court, in the following terms.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPPEN, President:
—The motion for a new trial in this cause has been made on several grounds:—1st. Because the jury have misbehaved, in adopting an improper mode of estimating the damages; by setting down each the particular sum he thought just, and then dividing the aggregate by the number of jurymen. 2d. Because the damages are said to be excessive. 3d. Because the verdict was contrary to the evidence. And, 4th. Because it was founded on a mistake in point of law; the jury supposing that, on payment of the damages, the Negro, (whose freedom was in question) would be emancipated.
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