Bennett v. Howard
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
WRIT of error. This was an action on the case. The plaintiff alleged in Ms declaration, that on the 15th of February, 1802, he . sailed from) New-London, as a seaman on board the snip Dispatch, of which the defendant was master, on a sealing voyage to the Pacific Ocean, under an agreement to receive, as wages, a certain share of the profits of the voyage : and that during the voyage, the ship put into the harbour of IVcst Point, one of the Falkland Islands, barren,…
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WRIT of error. This was an action on the case. The plaintiff alleged in Ms declaration, that on the 15th of February, 1802, he . sailed from) New-London, as a seaman on board the snip Dispatch, of which the defendant was master, on a sealing voyage to the Pacific Ocean, under an agreement to receive, as wages, a certain share of the profits of the voyage : and that during the voyage, the ship put into the harbour of IVcst Point, one of the Falkland Islands, barren, uninhabited, and in an intemperate cii- . , ⅛ , , . . , , , , . . mate. While the ship lay at this island, the plaintiti was…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The oath of jurors obliges them to ;i speak nothing to any one concerning the matters they have in hand, but among themselves, nor suffer any to speak to them about the same but in court, until the verdict is delivered up in court.”(a)
In this case, the court below found, that one of the jurors conversed freely with persons not of the jury, about the case, while it was on trial. This was directly contrary to his oath. To suffer such practice to obtain, would be of very dangerous tendency, by opening the way to corrupt the streams of justice; and would destroy all confidence in the…
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