Parker v. Interstate Life & Accident Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• introducing the concept that “[p]resumably as here used ‘prejudice’ would include discharge of a juror for want of any factual support, or for a legally irrelevant reason”
• “[W]hen a juror is absent from court for a period sufficiently long to interfere with the reasonable dispatch of business there may be a ‘sound’ basis for his dismissal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).