Flowers v. Flowers

CHAPMAN, Justice.

The subject matter of this suit involves a question of the disqualification of a juror in a child custody contest tried to a jury, the question of which side of the controversy was entitled to open and close and the refusal of the trial court to hear the mother’s proffered witnesses upon the question of divorce after agreement of the parties to leave that question for determination by the court.

This case was tried in a town and county of very small population where the record shows many members of the jury panel had heard what they referred to as gossip or rumors concerning…