Court Opinion

ID: 9609054
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:21:54.22513+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:48.507847
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Felton, Chief Judge,
concurring specially. The gravamen of the exception in this case is that the following question was propounded to prospective jurors: “Are any of you policy holders in the American Fire & Casualty Insurance Company?” and that the effect of the question was to inform the members of the jury that the insurance company was interested in the outcome of the case. It does not appear in the special ground of the amended motion that any juror disqualified by reason of such question. The court, after having asked the above question of the jury, qualified the jury with reference to their employment by the insurance company, as to whether they *152were stockholders in the insurance company and as to whether they were related to a stockholder in the company. There was no objection to this latter qualification of the jurors. This latter qualification gave the jury the same information which was given by the question objected to, namely, whether the jurors were policy holders in the insurance company. Since it does not appear that any member of the jury disqualified because he was a policy holder, whatever error the court committed, if he committed any, by asking the question under attack, was harmless because the jury obtained the insurance information in a manner admittedly proper otherwise than by qualification as to policy holders.