Case ID: va-ch-dec_2/html/0253-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Between RICHARD WOODS, plaintiff, and PHILIP MACRAE, defendent.
      
    
    March, 1794.
    New Trial — Mistaken in Verdict. — New trial granted for mistake in the verdict: Jurors examined to prove the mistake.
    
      
      Onappeal, the decree of the high court of chancery in this case was affirmed by the court of appeals. M’Rae v. Woods, 2 Wash. 80.
    
    
      
      New Trial. — See monographic note on “New Trials.”
    
   SOME of the jurors on trial of the issue in an action at common law, brought by the defendent against the plaintiff, appearing by their own examinations, taken in this cause, to have believed the defendent intitled to one half of a lottery ticket, and upon that supposition to have calculated the damages assessed for him, although that he was intitled only to one fourth, if to any, part of the ticket, appeared manifestly from abundant testimony; the court, the 8 day of march, 1794, ordered another trial of the 
      
       See the case between Cochran and Street, ante. — Note in edition of 1795.