Case ID: njl_1/html/0175-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RANDALL v. GROVER.
    1. A juror shall not he permitted to impugn a verdict in which he has himself joined.
    2. The court will not set aside a verdict, unless application is made within a reasonable time.
    The plaintiff in this ease had obtained a verdict at Nisi Prins in 178-4, and the postea was returned to September, 1784. Owing to particular reasons, which it is unnecessary to detail, judgment had not been entered on the verdict, and now Wilcox, for plaintiff, took a rule on the defendant, to show cause why judgment should not be entered on the postea, as of September Term, 1784.
    
      Read showed cause,
    and read the affidavit of one of the jurors, stating the evidence that had been produced ou the trial, and the insufficiency of it, to justify the verdict; and, also, that Grover, at that time, was so obnoxious he durst not appear at the trial.
   Per Curiam.

After a verdict given by a jury, none of the jurors can be permitted to come forward to say it was wrongfullly given ; nor should we, at this distance of time, set aside a verdict, Let the judgment be entered.

Rule absolute.

Cited in Hutchison ads. Consumers’ Coal Co., 7 Vr. 25. 
      
       See 5 Com. Dig. 509, tit. “Pleader,” R. 17; Rex v. Bell, 2 Sir. 995.