Case Name: Between RICHARD WOODS, plaintiff, and PHILIP MACRAE, defendent
Court: High Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1794-03
Citations: 2 Va. Ch. Dec. 253
Docket Number: 
Parties: Between RICHARD WOODS, plaintiff, and PHILIP MACRAE, defendent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions of the Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery (Wythe)
Volume: 2
Pages: 253–253

Head Matter:
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.”

Opinion:
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.