Big Rock Stone & Material Co. v. Hoffman

This action was filed by the appellees to recover property damages they had assertedly suffered from the appellant’s blasting operations. A trial by jury was completed on April 7, 1960, and ended in a unanimous verdict for the defendant. On May 3 the plaintiffs filed a motion for a new trial, alleging that they had learned that one of the jurors, Boy Bosson, had failed to disclose on voir dire that he was then being represented in a pending case by the defendant’s attorneys, the firm now styled Wright, Lindsey, Jennings, Lester & Shults. After a hearing upon the motion the trial judge…