Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_2/html/0245-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MISCONDUCT OF JURY.
    W. H. JANES v. JACOB HOEHN.
    Evidence of Jurors Incompetent to Show.
    Affidavits of jurors will not be received to prove their own misconduct in adopting-an improper way of arriving at a verdict.
    C. E. Pennewell, for plaintiff in error.
    Robinson & White, for defendant in error.
   The jury agreed to each assess the amount of damages, the added total to be divided by twelve, and agreed to and did return the quotient as their verdict. This, was proved only by the affidavits of jurors. .

Held: The evidence was inadmissible to prove such misconduct, Farrer v. State, 2 O. S., 54.