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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Isaac Brunson against William Graham.
    New trial ordered, because the jury received new evidence after leaving the bar.
    Case, for non-performance of a contract respecting the transfer of funded stock of the United States. The cause was tried at the sittings in Philadelphia, on the 19th September last, and a verdict for the plaintiff.
    Messrs. Lewis and Rawle.^’c guer.
    
    Messrs. Ingersoll and Rawle, pro def.
    
   A rule was made to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted, which rule was now made absolute by consent without, argument. It was admitted, that the jury retired from the bar and conferred together for some time without coming to a decision, and then broke up late at night. Next morning. Qne of the jurors applied to a broker for information respecting the price of certificates at a particular period, and having obtained the intelligence he wanted, communicated the same to his fellow jurors. Cro. El. 189,

Yenire facias de novo awarded.