Hauck v. Price

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to the plaintiff in an action based on an assault. The principal questions presented by this appeal are concerned with alleged misconduct of the jury.

At a hearing on the motion for new trial, evidence was produced’to the effect that while the jury was deliberating on the damage issues some question arose as to how the defendants could pay any damages that might be awarded against them, and the foreman of the jury stated that they owned a business and could pay the damages, or, probably, could borrow enough money to pay them.…