Bradbury v. Cony
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
. Motion roe a new tbial by the demandants on the ground that the verdict against them was obtained by the effect of improper influences, brought to bear upon the minds of the jurors rendering it. The issue between the parties was as to the true location of the line dividing ■ their conterminous estates, and the testimony as to an alleged set-off in the wall between their respective buildings was conflicting.
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. Motion roe a new tbial by the demandants on the ground that the verdict against them was obtained by the effect of improper influences, brought to bear upon the minds of the jurors rendering it. The issue between the parties was as to the true location of the line dividing ■ their conterminous estates, and the testimony as to an alleged set-off in the wall between their respective buildings was conflicting. On the day the cause was argued, and before it was committed to the jury, three of the panel were upon the platform of the railroad depot in Augusta, opposite to the locus in quo, and…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
Every party litigant is entitled to a fair and impartial trial, without bias or prejudice on the part of jurymen and without any interference by the opposite party, or his relatives or friends, creating or tending to create a bias, exciting or tending to excite a prejudice in the minds of those before whom the cause is *225tried, in favor of the party by whom, or by whose relatives or friends, such interference is had. It is immaterial whether such interference is the result of design, or of ignorance. The effect in either case is the same.
The controversy between these parties relates to the…
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