Case Name: Ladd v. Wilson
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1806-03
Citations: 1 Cranch 305
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ladd v. Wilson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 305–305

Head Matter:
Ladd v. Wilson.
The Court will not, in general; suffer the affidavits of jurymen to be read, upon a motion for new trial, on the ground of mistake, miscalculation, or misconduct of the iury- . ’ ...
Verdict for the plaintiff.
Motion by the defendant’ for a new trial, grounded on the affidavits of three or four'of the jurymen, that a mistake was made by the foreman in-calculating upon the principles agreed on by the jury ; some of the others, particularly the foreman, believed there was no mistake.
Mr. Swann, for the plaintiff,
cited Vasie v. Delaval, 1 T. R. 11, and Cochran v. Street, 1 Wash.'79. '■

Opinion:
The Court
were of opinion, that it was dangerous to take the affidavits of j urors as' to mistakes' of calculations, &c.; but on reading the. affidavits, there did not appear to have been an error in the foreman's calculation, and a new trial was refused. '- The Court, however, wished it not to be considered as giving a sanetion to the practice of taking such affidavits of jurymen;