Williams v. Bridges

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant has appealed. /

In his first point he claims that his motion for a new trial should have been granted because the juror, Miss Vina Lewis, who had witnessed the accident and had formed and held an opinion that the defendant was liable, on her voir dire examination falsely denied having any knowledge of the accident, her answers were believed, she was sworn as a juror, and thereafter with eight other jurors, nine in all, brought in a…