Featherstone v. Lowell Cotton Mills
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Long, J., at January Special Term, 1912, of GastoN. Civil action to recover damages for personal injuries. There was verdict for plaintiff and judgment, and defendant excepted and appealed, assigning for error: 1. Tbat plaintiff’s counsel, for tbe purpose of ascertaining tbeir competency to serve as jurors, was allowed to ask, over defendant’s objection, if they were interested as stockholders, officers, or employees, etc., of the Maryland Casualty Company. 2.…
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Appeal from Long, J., at January Special Term, 1912, of GastoN. Civil action to recover damages for personal injuries. There was verdict for plaintiff and judgment, and defendant excepted and appealed, assigning for error: 1. Tbat plaintiff’s counsel, for tbe purpose of ascertaining tbeir competency to serve as jurors, was allowed to ask, over defendant’s objection, if they were interested as stockholders, officers, or employees, etc., of the Maryland Casualty Company. 2. That while court was examining an authority on the subject, plaintiff’s counsel stated in the hearing of the jurors and…
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Under our decisions tbe stockholders, officers, or employees of tbe casualty company would not be impartial or competent jurors to determine tbe issue, and under all ordinary conditions tbe questions asked by counsel on tbe voir dire were not improper. Norris v. Cotton Mills, 154 N. C., 474; Blevins v. Cotton Mills, 150 N. C., 493.
It bas also been beld with us, however, that the'fact that a principal defendant is- protected from liability by an insurance policy is not a relevant circumstance on tbe trial of the issue (Lytton v. Manufacturing Co., 157 N. C., 331) ; and before jury impaneled,…
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