Chicago Joint Stock Land Bank v. Eggers

Plaintiff sued defendants to recover unpaid rent on a 500-acre tract of land which defendants had previously rented from the plaintiff under a written lease. The ease was submitted to the jury under instruction requiring the jury to answer two questions therein submitted. The jury having performed its duty and answering such questions adversely to the defendants, they filed a motion for a new trial, setting out 14 different grounds therein. All of the grounds of the motion were overruled except that the court sustained the ground charging misconduct on the part of one of the jurors and…