Haight v. Turner
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case, tried before the superior court for Fairfield county, at the February term, 1852. This action was brought to recover damages, for an injury sustained by the wife, while riding along the public highway, in the town of Wilton, from a certain stage-coach of the defendants, the horses of which had been so carelessly and negligently left, that they ran away with the coach, and occasioned the injury of which the plaintiffs complained.
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This was an action on the case, tried before the superior court for Fairfield county, at the February term, 1852. This action was brought to recover damages, for an injury sustained by the wife, while riding along the public highway, in the town of Wilton, from a certain stage-coach of the defendants, the horses of which had been so carelessly and negligently left, that they ran away with the coach, and occasioned the injury of which the plaintiffs complained. The plaintiffs having obtained a verdict for fifteen hundred dollars damages, the defendant, Turner, moved to set it aside, upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
Whatever opinions may formerly have been entertained upon the subject, the rule seems now to be fully settled, in England, in this state, and generally throughout the Union, that the testimony of a juror cannot be received for the purpose of setting aside a verdict, on the ground of mistake or misconduct, on the part of the jurors. Vaise v. Delaval, 1 Term R. 11. Owen v. Warburton, 1 New Rep. 326. Everett v. Youells, 4 Bar. & Adol. 681. (24 E. C. L. 141.) State of Conn. v. Freeman, 5 Conn. R. 348. Meade v. Smith, 16 Conn. R. 348. The People v. Columbia Common Pleas, 1 Wend. 297. Hannum v. The…
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