Rosanoff v. Duquesne University

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The plaintiff recovered a jury’s verdict in his suit for damages for the defendant’s breach of an alleged oral contract for the plaintiff’s professional (teaching) services. Thereafter, the court below ordered a new trial on the ground that “In the interests of justice there must be a new trial.” From that order, the plaintiff has appealed.

The trial judge who wrote the opinion for the court en banc on the award of the new trial, expressed himself as “. . . convinced from the questions, the attitude and the manner of the jury when they appeared for further…