Patchin v. Sands
New York Supreme Court
a motion was made in this case for a foreign or struck jury, on the ground that the venue was necessarily laid in the county of Kings, that a majority of the jurors would most probably come from the village of Brooklyn, that the suit grew out of a long agitated controversy between the public officers of that village and the plaintiff relative to a contemplated improvement in the opening of a street, and that the plaintiff believed that there would not be a fair and impartial…
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a motion was made in this case for a foreign or struck jury, on the ground that the venue was necessarily laid in the county of Kings, that a majority of the jurors would most probably come from the village of Brooklyn, that the suit grew out of a long agitated controversy between the public officers of that village and the plaintiff relative to a contemplated improvement in the opening of a street, and that the plaintiff believed that there would not be a fair and impartial trial of the cause by jurors of the county of Kings.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
The jurors from Brooklyn, if incompetent by reason of prejudice or interest, may be objected to. It cannot be believed that after the jury-box is properly sifted, twelve impartial men cannot be found in the county of Kings to try this cause. Parties deceive themselves in the estimate of the extent of interest which the public at large take in their controversies. In the case of Boucher and Livingston, which arose in the county of Columbia, the evidence of public interest in the matter in controversy was very strong, and the court, under the circumstances of the…
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