Spencer v. Doane
Citations
- 23 Cal. 418
Syllabus
<p>Ik a civil action, a party cannot raise the objection for the first time in the Supreme Court, that the jury before which the cause was tried in the Court below, was not duly selected and summoned as required by law. To enable a party to avail himself of such objection, it must be made in the Court below.</p> <p>Newly-discovered evidence, which is merely cumulative, affords no ground for a new trial.</p> <p>It is not error for the Court to exclude affidavits, filed on a motion for a new trial, which are written in a foreign language.</p>
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Judges: Crocker
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