Mrs. Baird's Bread Company v. Hearn

Our petitioners, who successfully defended this automobile collision-personal injury suit in the trial court, complain here of the action of the Court of Civil Appeals in ordering a new trial because of: (a) conduct of an unnamed juror in “testifying” favorably to the petitioners-defendant in the jury room, and (b) exclusion by the trial judge of evidence tendered by our respondent (plaintiff) to rebut inferences from questions directed by petitioners’ counsel to a disappointing witness of respondent whom the latter was seeking to impeach. 295 S.W. 2d 689. We hold that neither ground of…