P. M. Lattner Manufacturing Co. v. Higgins

The one matter of complaint by the appellant is that the trial court had no power to reassemble the jury after its discharge, or to receive their affidavits in support of a claim of alleged mistake, or to correct the alleged mistake, even though it were shown by the highest degree of proof.

That the court has power to reassemble a jury, even after it has rendered a sealed verdict, and has been discharged, and to permit a showing thereby that, through inadvertence or clerical error, the verdict rendered does not in form express the real verdict reached by the jury in its deliberations, has been…