Steiner v. Custer

Upon trial of this cause, which is an action for damages growing out of an automobile collision, the jury returned a verdict in defendants’ favor upon plaintiff’s petition, and in favor of plaintiff upon defendants’ cross-petition. A motion for a new trial was made and sustained upon the sole ground of misconduct of certain jurors by their silence and failure to disclose their participation in and connection with prior automobile accidents. The defendants appealed from this ruling, upon the theory that the order whs a final one because the court had grossly abused its discretion.

Upon a…