Seymour v. Purnell

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the appellee, who was defendant below, in an action instituted by the appellant to recover the possession of land which he claimed that the appellee unlawfully and against his consent, withheld from him. There was a trial and verdict for the defendant, and appellant moved for a new trial on the ground that the jury had not been properly sworn.

The statute concerning “ forcible entry and detainer ” prescribes the forms of oath to be administered to the jury in the several classes of cases it covers. That for a case of unlawful detainer is:…