Case ID: tenn_42/html/0309-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Shackelford, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

L. J. Magness vs. Stewart and Wife.
    
      3 ubor. Challenge. New Trial. Interest. The interest of a juror in the result of a suit, is good cause for a challenge; but an affidavit of that fact, after judgment, will not support a motion for a new trial.
    FROM DEKALB.
    There was a judgment in this case for the defendants in error, at the February Term,'1861, and a motion for a new trial, on account of the incompetence of one of the jurors, which motion was overruled; and the plaintiff in error appealed, Judge Samuel M. Fite, presiding.
    Fite, for plaintiff in error.
    Comes, for defendants in error.
   Shackelford, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of De-Kalb. A verdict and judgment was rendered in that Court against the plaintiff in error. He applied for a. new trial, and in support of his motion filed his affidavit, stating that Hill, one of the jurors, was interested in the result of the suit; and, also, the affidavit of Isabel Magness, that Hill had filed his bill against Stewart, attaching the fund sought to be recovered, for a debt of Stewart. The Court refused the motion, and, we think, correctly. It may have been a good cause of challenge, but it is no reason for granting a new trial: 8 Yer, 507.

The proof fully sustains the verdict, and there is no error. The judgment is affirmed.