CONDUCT OF JURYMAN.
QUEST-OX Of COTJBT. *
application FOR NONSUIT.
(By Telegraph.r-Press Association.* WELLINGTON, this day.
A rather unusual application was made to' the Supreme Court in a ease in which J. 3. Conway, plasterer, was awarded £900 damages against the Neuchatel Asphalt Company for injuries by accident. Defendants applied for a nonsuit, or, alternatively, a new trial, on the grounds of (1) alleged misconduct of the jury, and (2) verdict against weight of evidence. The latter was abandoned, and the claim rested on No. 1. The misconduct complained of was that as the jury were leaving the Court on the first day of the hearing one of their number entered into conversation with a witness. Counsel intervened at the time, and pointed out that the conversation was improper. The juryman stated that he asked the witness to describe the lift where the accident took place. " Decision on the point was reserved. ' '.- '.-.-*
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 6
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