Texas Mutual Life Ins. v. R. A. Brown & Co.

The first error assigned is: The court erred in sustaining the objection of plaintiffs to defendant’s question pro. posed to each of the jurors: “Do you believe that, if a person commit suicide, it is conclusive evidence that he was insane at the time of committing the act?”

The act of 1876, regulating juries, in section 26 specifies several causes which shall be good causes of challenge, but it does not, by its terms, exclude the consideration of other causes than those enumerated. Among those named are, that the juror “ is biased or prejudiced in favor of or against either party.” To give…