Case ID: howell-np_1/html/0124-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hooker, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Calhoun Circuit.
    
    MELITA J. ROBERTS et. al. vs. THE CHICAGO AND GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY CO.
    
      Motion for New Trial — Affidavits of Jurors to Impeach the Verdict. ■
    Affidavits of jurors are not admissible to impeach their own verdict.
    Judgment having been rendered against the defendant upon the verdict, a motion was duly entered for a new trial.
    Upon the hearing, the defendant’s attorney offered to read in support of the motion, affidavits of several of the jurymen, purporting to show that the jury had found the verdict contrary to the evidence and the charge of the court.
    
      To the reading of these affidavits, plaintiffs objected, on the ground that the affidavits of jurymen are not admissible to impeach their own verdict.
    (June 19, 1882.)
    
      T. R. Meacham for Plaintiff.
    
      E. W. Mvddaiigh for Defendant.
   The Court,

Hooker, J.,

Held: That the affidavits could not he read. That it was the practice of the court upon well settled authorities not to admit such affidavits.

1 Green’s Practice, 584.

Woodward vs. Leavitt, 107 Mass., 453, 9 Am. Rep., 49.

Dalrymple vs. Williams, 63 N. Y., 361; 20 Am. Rep., 544.

Apthorp vs. Backus, Kirby 407; 1 Am. Dec., 26.

Cluggage vs. Swan, 4 Binney, 150; 5 Am. Dec., 400.

Forrester vs. Guard, Breese 74; 12 Am. Dec., 141 and note.

Crawford vs. State, 2 Yerger, 60; 24 Am. Dec., 467 and note.

13 Cent. Law Journal, 61, where all the cases are collected.

Motion denied.