JURY AND WITNESS.
NEW TRIAL ORDERED. (Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, to-day ordered a new trial in the case of i Gallagher versus Bicknell for a claim for | fSOO special damages based on alleged ■breaches of covenant to repair buildings, : etc., on a leased farm. The jury awarded ' £800. The defendant applied for a new j trial on the ground that damages ] awarded were excessive; also that mem- I hers of the jury had been guilty of misconduct in discussing the case with a •witness for the plaintiff at the luncheon adjournment during the progress of the ! cas-e. The witness, it was alleged, in- j formed the jurors that the defendant i made £20,000 out of the lease in. question. In giving his decision, the Chief Justice said the information wee not actually material to the case, but was of such a nature that it might have affected the jurymen's findings. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 8
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