Court Opinion

ID: 4925730
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Date Created: 2021-09-24 00:56:29.912791+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:19.763290
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Mellen C. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case the talesmen were returned by the sheriff, without objection, although the defendant is one of his deputies ; and the question is, whether the verdict, which has been returned in favor of the defendant, ought to be set aside on that account. The fact on which the motion is founded appears on the record ; and of course, the plaintiff must be presumed to have known it, when the talesmen were returned. Here, then, is evidence of an implied waiver of all objections on that account. The return of the talesmen by the sheriff was certainly a good cause of challenge; and had they been challenged they would have been set aside; but under the circumstances of this case, the objection comes too late. The case of Jeffries & al. v. Randall 14 Mass. 205, is a stronger one than this. There it does not appear that the fact on which the motion for a new trial was founded was known to the demandants until after verdict. The juryman was by statute disqualified from sitting in the cause, if challenged, on account of his being interested in a question similar to that which was then in trial ; but, as he was not challenged, the Court refused to set aside the verdict. See also the case of Amherst v. Hadley 1 Pick. 38, and note.
We are of opinion that the present motion cannot be sustained.

Judgment according to the verdict.