Case ID: mass_2/html/0041-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "* The Court,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Coffin Jones versus Giles Alexander.
    New trial refused, where the former trial was before a quorum of the Court.
    This was an action of assumpsit, and was tried the first week ot this term before the three justices, Sedgwick, Thatcher, and Parker. A paper was offered in evidence to the jury, by the defendant’s counsel, which was objected to by the counsel for the plaintiff.
   * The Court,

after some argument, unanimously admit- [ * 37 ] ted the evidence ; and there was a verdict for the defendant. Afterwards, the Chief Justice being present, Parsons, for the plaintiff, moved for a new trial, on the ground that the evidence was improperly admitted. The Court unanimously refused to sustain the motion, or to go into the examination of the propriety of admitting the evidence, it having been admitted by a quorum of the Court; and particularly, as the point was not, by the plaintiff’s coun sel, requested at the trial to be reserved.