Clemmons v. Super Food Services, Inc.

Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle hit from the rear by a truck owned by defendant. Suit was brought in common pleas court for the city of Detroit, and in May, 1964, the jury returned a verdict of $3,000 for plaintiff.

Defendant took a general appeal to circuit court. During the course of preparation for that appeal, defendant learned, through a Cleveland Index Bureau investigation of jurors’ backgrounds, that one of the jurors, Joseph Michno, had made answers during the voir dire examination relative to his prior accident record inconsistent with answers on the juror’s personal history…