Case Name: DARE v. OGDEN
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1791-09
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 107
Docket Number: 
Parties: DARE v. OGDEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 107–108

Head Matter:
DARE v. OGDEN.
1. Exceptions waived at the trial not sufficient to overturn a judgment.
2. An ex parte affidavit not admitted to prove exceptions to a judgment.
Certiorari to Justice Mulford.
The summons was dated the 8th, returnable on the 21st of May. The objection was, that more than twelve days intervened, contrary to the express words of the act of assembly.

Opinion:
Per Cur.
Dare appeared and craved a jury; he made no exceptions at the time ; this exception is disallowed. Another is, that the jury received evidence of the plaintiff's demand after their departure from the bar. One Ryley, Jr., a juror, swears that an account of the plaintiff's demand was handed in to the jury, but by whom he does not know. This is an £92] ex parte affidavit, taken without notice, in the absence of the opposite party and his attorney.
The court, therefore, reject the affidavit and affirm the judgment.
Note. — Ryley further swore that he did not agree to the verdict, as .he though it unjust, and was induced to assent, from being unwell. The court said, that he had acted, by his own confession, contrary to his solemn oath as a juror in so doing, and directed the affidavit to be handed to the attorney-general, to lay before the grand jury of Cumberland, as the foundation of a presentment for misbehavior.