Wheat v. Fraker

Eberhardt, Judge:

“Foul, foul play,” the defendant cried;

“That I by kinsman be not trammelled,

Let the issue again be tried

Before another jury impanelled.

Remember how from John at Runnymede

The Charta was forced and wrested

That no matter what the issue or the deed

By my peers it must be tried and tested. With juror mine adversary durst

Try the cause, whose wife is second cousin to my wife And to plaintiff’s wife a first.

A new trial, sire, I demand to settle strife.”

“No foul play do I find or see,”

The judge replied. “Foreman’s wife to thine And to plaintiff’s wife may kinsman be,

But to Doug and…