Lee v. Baltimore Hotel Co.

This is an action for $25,000 damages for personal injuries. The jury found for defendant and the trial court, of its own motion during the trial term, granted plaintiff a new trial. Defendant has appealed from this order.

The order granting the new trial made a finding of the facts, upon which it was based, and was, as follows:

"The matter of a new trial in the above-entitled cause coming on regularly for hearing, the court finds the following facts:

"That there was drawn from the general jury-wheel, for service as a juror for the week beginning November 15th, 1937, the name of W.M. Bennett;…