Lambert v. Harris

The recent case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Harry J. Tompkins, 304 U. S. 64, 58 S. Ct. 817, 82 L. Ed. 1188, by the Supreme Court is cited as authority to induce this court to overrule decisions of nearly two score years’ standing, which during said lapse of time have been followed with practical unanimity, holding to the rule that the verdict of a jury cannot be impeached by affidavits of the jurors which seek to explain it, or to show the grounds upon which it was rendered.

This rule was recently applied by this court in the case of Rice v. Emerson, 181 Okla. 51, 72 P.2d 498. There we said:

“It is…