El Paso Electric Ry. Co. v. Gonzales
El Paso Electric Ry. Co. v. Gonzales
Opinion of the Court
This suit was filed by Mrs. Elvira C. Gonzales, joined by her husband, against the El Paso Electric Railway Company,’ for damages for personal injuries. It was tried with a jury, and, from a verdict for $500 in favor of plaintiff, the defendant has appealed and urges one assignment of error, upon which it has based a request that the case be remanded for a new trial.
It is that two jurymen selected to try the cause were so prejudiced against the defendant that it did not have a fair and impartial trial; that their prejudice was concealed by the jurymen a.t the time of their selection; and that the actions of said jurors, in course of the deliberation of the jury, affected the findings of the jury to defendant’s prejudice. Two jurymen, it is charged, were not fair and impartial; that they did not disclose it upon examination, but was afterwards discovered by reason of remarks made by them during the trial.
We conclude that there is no such preponderance of the evidence in favor of a finding that they were prejudiced as to justify a reversal of the ease for that reason, especially in view of the verdict for $500, which does not appear to be excessive.
Affirmed.
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