Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 6 | Jurors in a Bank Case Have Made Affidavits

oo JORORS IN A BANK CASE RAVE IDE AFFIDAVITS Resisting the motion for a new trial in the case of Louise Van Dyke against the Ogden Savings bank, the defendant company has filed in the district court the affidavits of Jurors Isaac Beitman, Lafayette T. Farr, C. Storey, Albert Green and H. H. Shurt-liff. Shurt-liff. In which they state that the verdict ver-dict In favor of the defendant was rendered after a number of hours or due deliberation in which Juror M. K. Jacobs took au active part, first being in favor of the plaintiff but afterwards voting with the affi-yntB affi-yntB for the defendant The affiants also say that Jacobs signed the verdict ver-dict voluntarily and more than once said it was his verdict Mr Jacobs also makes an affidavit to the effect that he did not iutend in his previous affidavit, made in support sup-port of the motion for a new trial to change his verdict, which was for the defendant, but that he did not ob ject to a new trial. He slates that ne was willing for another jury to pass on the question He further says In his affidavit that his former sworn statement was made after he had talked with the plaintiff and her attorneys and had also seen the affidavit affi-davit of Theodore Kytka. the expert on handwriting He also says that he considers that the parties had a fair trial. Attorney C. A. Boyd for the bank makes an affidavit to the effect that the plaintiff was not denied the prlvl lege of examining the receipts in question and the signatures thereon, aud that the plaintiff and her attor neys were familiar with the papers