Bruner v. C. Brewer & Co.

OPINION OF THE' COURT BY

PERRY, J.

The defendant suggests that the chief justice is disqualified from sitting in this case owing to the fact that his mother and his brother own shares of stock in the defendant corporation. Section 84 of the Organic Act, as amended by the Act of Congress of May 27, 1910, providing that “no person shall sit as a judge or juror in any case in which his relative by affinity or by consanguinity within the third, degree is interested, either as a plaintiff or defendant, or in the issue of which the said judge or juror has, either directly or through such relative,…