Broadway Building Co. v. Saladino

The jury having rendered its verdict in favor of the defendant in an action on a promissory note, and, after the same was duly recorded, certain colloquy ensued. between the jurors and the court, wherein one of the jurors then, for the first time, made the remark that the verdict as rendered was not his verdict, but that he consented to the same because he did not want “ to be locked up in the jury room over night. ’ ’ The plaintiff contends that a verdict rendered in the manner as herein stated was not a proper verdict and that, the jurors were guilty of misconduct, and for that reason the…