Fiske v. Paine

At the September Term, 1892, of this court,' in the county of Kent, the appellants contested the validity of the will of the late Horatio N. Waterman of Coventry. A verdict was rendered sustaining the will, which gave the residuum of the estate to the Town Council of Coventry, in trust for the support of the poor of said town. The appellants how petition for a new trial upon the ground that the foreman of the jury was the son of a taxpayer in said town, and so disqualified, by relationship, from serving as a juror ; which disqualification entitles them to have the verdict set aside as for a…