O'Neil v. Lake Superior, Iron Co.

The only question presented by the assignment of error in this case relates to the action of the circuit judge in excusing a juror.

While the jurors were being impaneled, and the counsel for the plaintiff had exhausted his peremptory challenges, one of the jurors who previously had been examined by plaintiff’s counsel, but not rejected, informed the circuit judge that he did not think he had a sufficient understanding of the English language to qualify him to sit as a juror, and requested to be excused from sitting.

*561The circuit judge made the request known to the counsel for the parties, and…