Ensign v. Harney

The trial of this case was commenced in the district court of Lancaster county on the 1st day of June, 1883, and continued for several days. On Saturday, June 2d, about 4 o’clock p.m., the court adjourned until the following Monday. Two of the jurors thereupon applied to one of the defendant’s attorneys for his horse and buggy to carry them home, a distance of about 12 miles, and return on the following Monday. The attorney readily complied with their request. A verdict having been rendered for the defendant, a motion for a new trial was filed, in which this cause among others was assigned as…