| Show I COURT GOURT GALLS CALLS IT ITA ITA A CHANCE Supreme Court Decision in Case Cas of Wright vs Union Pacific COURT counT IS 1 Ot or of the n o WhIch torasi The supreme court down an 51 opinion today In the c cue ot of Willard it Wright vs VI tile the Union Company appellant the thi theU cause U and remanding the Urns to tb thi thicourt court ourt below with to grant LI 1 new trial This was wal hun begun In the SIt Se Seend end Nul district court at Ogden oden to 1800 dam damages aill from irom the M Man an Injury which the Wright Jle be while itt the railroad emploY engaged wIth oth otherS In steal rails rail from one car to 10 nuth lii I the he Union Pacific yards at tile City on January 17 I IThe 1800 The cue wu warn tried a Jury Jur lit In 11 inn and six ot of the eight Jurors for tor pulp In iii the sum lum of The for for fOI a nw new trial upon the following grounds That the verdIct wad at 0 eb by b to 10 chaNt that tt I wa was J Judge ude ordered t a atrial new trial be granted unless ten t mitt the plaIntiff reduced the r to Mo hod 1100 The Th pain tift by his hla t 1 muted sit all of the verdict above l land and induced 01 the Judgment to 10 that tbt Prom From thu littler Judgment the 4 cot When tIle the motion tar tor a new ew trial w made were Introduced how leI that two of the eight Jurors wen wenC C to finding any verdict whit what lI eter er for Cor the plaintiff The IllS other il agreed that the hi be awarded dam damages but could bot upon tie amount It Wil then pro proposed posed d that each one writs o 0 oa a slip Ilip ot of the amount moun t hi fa assessing as and that s such amounts amount bould tie bl ad added d tO and divided by six lle the number er 0 of the agreeing Juror jarol This OA It appears w was agreed to And out One OOl of the Jurors the slips and mane maae them a part of hi hill The respective amoUnts writ written ten on each slip wu was as 1 follows raO 1010 1000 and The total ot of these mount Ja which divided b by six Ix h quotient of tilt the amount named In the verdict Five of tM this matt r that e Ms U thi a e agree W made and out cot a agreement ament w wg made nta e U the 4 should be th the ot of Wright damage The other three one of whom horn hornA WIS A J sipped and reo is the verdict with the others positive that lC It was agreed and nd understood that the so arrived at should lie bt the damages Justice who wrote wOt the Ion after fter reviewing the on both sides holds that the verdict vu u rot the result ot of the and nd un untrammeled trammeled and action ot of else Jury but wu determined by the lime chance result ot of th the methods resorted to A reversal and h new is II accordingly ordered The opinion Is II concurred itt It by Chief Justice and anI Justice Mister |
