Harford Sands, Inc. v. Groft

ADKINS, Judge.

Aggrieved when a jury awarded it only $4,000 instead of the $1.1 million it was seeking, Petitioner, Harford Sands, Inc. (Harford Sands) sought a new trial because a juror had obtained certain information from a source extraneous to the trial. The Circuit Court for Harford County rejected that plaint, as did the Court of Special Appeals. So do we. Balancing “the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter in relation to the circumstances of the particular case,” Wernsing v. General Motors Corp., 298 Md. 406, 420, 470 A.2d 802, 809 (1984), we hold that the…