Wright v. Eastlick

Citations

• 125 Cal. 517
• 58 P. 87
• 1899 Cal. LEXIS 891

Syllabus

<p>New Trial—Misconduct of Jury—Conversation, Drinking, and Carousal with Parties—The misconduct of jurors whose concurrence was essential to the verdict, in conversing about the case with parties to the action, and in drinking and carousing with one of the prevailing parties, is such misconduct as entitles the losing parties to a new trial, irrespective of counter-affidavits that the treating of and drinking with the jurors was indulged in by both parties to the litigation, and that their verdict was uninfluenced by the misconduct complained of.</p>