Hancock v. Salmon
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal, by the defendants, from a judgment of the Oswego county court, affirming a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace. Before the" justice the plaintiff recovered a judgment for $16. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Gridley, J.
The only ground relied on for reversing the judgment in this cause, is the ailedged irregularity of the justice, in entering the jury room and reading the testimony of a witness to the jury in the absence of the parties. The justice in the first instance returned that he went into the jury room, by the consent of the defendants or their counsel; and that when he had entered, the jury wanted him to read to them the testimony of a witness by the name of Gardner, and he consented. On a further return he states the facts of his going into the jury room with more…
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