Stone v. Griffin Baking Co. of Greensboro, Inc.

Plaintiff has one assignment of error, and that is to the denial by the court of his motion made at the September 1961 Term, before the judgment was signed, to examine the juror Robert M. Davis and to set aside the verdict and order a new trial, and to the judgment entered at that term, and to the order entered at the subsequent October 1961 Term denying his motion to set aside the verdict and order a new trial, because of the misconduct of the juror Davis.

The granting or denial of a motion for a new trial because of the misconduct of a juror is generally regarded as resting in the sound…