Hazen v. P. H. Rice Corp.

There are two reasons why the plaintiff’s motion must be denied. In the first place the challenges in each instance are not for principal cause but are to the favor, (State v. Howard, 17 N. H. 171, 190, et seq; Wood v. Wood, 52 N. H. 422, 429; State v. Perkins, 70 N. H. 330), and so present not a question of law for this court but one of fact for the court below, which question by necessary inference from the general denial of the plaintiff’s motions for a new trial, was there decided adversely to him. Lavigne v. Lavigne, 80 N. H. 559, 561, and cases cited.

In the second place the plaintiff…