Goodright v. M'Causland
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Motion for a new trial on the part of the defendants, and a rule to shew cause had been granted. The action had been tried at Lancaster the last October assizes,' before M’Kean C. J. and Yeates J., and a verdict had passed for the plaintiff. The new trial had been pressed on five grounds: ist. That the verdict was against the weight of evidence. 2d.
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Motion for a new trial on the part of the defendants, and a rule to shew cause had been granted. The action had been tried at Lancaster the last October assizes,' before M’Kean C. J. and Yeates J., and a verdict had passed for the plaintiff. The new trial had been pressed on five grounds: ist. That the verdict was against the weight of evidence. 2d. That Herman Skiles, one of the jurors, some weeks before the trial, had betted a pint of wine with colonel James Mercer, that a verdict would go for the plaintiff, and thereby shewed his partiality. 3d. That five of the jurors eat or drank during…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court.
The last exception to the verdict, has been properly relinquished on the argument.
Neither was the first insisted on, with much hopes of success. The judges who tried the cause, did not sum up the evidence in their charge to the jury. The trial had continued five days; a great number of witnesses were examined as to *377a variety of facts, and both the law and fact were fully con-considered, and very ably argued by the counsel on both sides. The court under a few general remarks, left the matter of fact *3781 solely to ^ie decision *of the jury; and we now feel d ourselves precluded from…
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