Case ID: f2d_230/html/0946-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. E. FLETCHER, Appellant, v. Eric B. TOWNSEND, Jr., a Minor, by his Father and Next Friend, Eric B. Townsend, Appellee. T. E. FLETCHER, Appellant, v. Lloyd E. BENJAMIN, III, a Minor, by Lloyd W. Benjamin, II, his Father and Next Friend, Appellee.
    Nos. 12537, 12538.
    United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
    Feb. 9, 1956.
    Hoppe, Day & Ford, Warren, Ohio, for appellant.
    Craig Spangenberg, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee.
    Before ALLEN, MARTIN, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

In these companion cases arising out of a judgment rendered upon a jury verdict in an action for personal injuries sustained in a collision between a passenger automobile and a truck, the District Court, after oral hearing and consideration of depositions and affidavits, sustained a motion for new trial for alleged misconduct of jurors;

And it appearing that the District Court did not abuse its discretion in granting such motion; Stiles v. Lawrie, 6 Cir., 211 F.2d 188, 190; Losey v. Creamer, 45 Ohio App. 356, 187 N.E. 197.

And no reversible error appearing in the record;

The order of the District Court entered January 27, 1955, is hereby affirmed.