Vollrath v. Crowe

Citations

• 9 Wash. 374
• 37 P. 474
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 321

Syllabus

<p>EVIDENCE —CUSTOM —MISCONDUCT OE JUROR.</p> <p>Where a definite contract has been made, and the controversy is not as to the meaning of the terms used by the parties, but as to what precise terms had in fact been used, evidence of custom is not admissible.</p> <p>Semble-. That a new trial should be granted when it is shown that the successful litigant and one of the jurymen, during the progress of the trial, had been promenading the street, conversing together, and playing at cards and drinking together in a saloon.</p>