Bissell v. Ryan
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action on an account for $97, originally Cornmenced before a justice of the peace by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, for medical- services rendered, as per bill of items filed. The case was appealed to the Circuit Court, and upon a trial of the cause by a jury, before Rice, Judge, a verdict was rendered for the defendant in error, for the whole amount of the bill, $97, and judgment rendered thereon against the plaintiff in error.
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This was an action on an account for $97, originally Cornmenced before a justice of the peace by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, for medical- services rendered, as per bill of items filed. The case was appealed to the Circuit Court, and upon a trial of the cause by a jury, before Rice, Judge, a verdict was rendered for the defendant in error, for the whole amount of the bill, $97, and judgment rendered thereon against the plaintiff in error. The bill of exceptions shows, that on impannelling a jury, one Bolton was called as a juror, who answered upon voir dire, that he…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The juror Bolton was incompetent, and the challenge should have been allowed. There should be no mistaking the act of 1859, by those who are acquainted with the mischief it was designed to remedy. There had grown up, in our State, a formidable corps of professional jurors; persons who, having no honest means of livelihood, or not resorting to them, if they had, were found, at every term, hanging about the court-houses, importuning the sheriffs and their deputies, and seizing every occasion to be put upon the juries—making their living, in fact, by jury service. If they could not get upon the…
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