Told out of court; personal experiences of members of the Chicago Bench and bar . ze from the above title a veryordinary method of the average jury in arriving at whatis frequently designated a compromise verdict, where theonly difference between them, under the evidence, is howmuch the prevailing party should receive as his or herdamages. Such verdicts are only condemned when they are arrivedat as the result of a gamble or chance; that is, where thejury, in advance of adding the amounts fixed by the re-spective jurors and dividing the sum by the number ofjurors to secure the quotient, or aver
Told out of court; personal experiences of members of the Chicago Bench and bar . ze from the above title a veryordinary method of the average jury in arriving at whatis frequently designated a compromise verdict, where theonly difference between them, under the evidence, is howmuch the prevailing party should receive as his or herdamages. Such verdicts are only condemned when they are arrivedat as the result of a gamble or chance; that is, where thejury, in advance of adding the amounts fixed by the re-spective jurors and dividing the sum by the number ofjurors to secure the quotient, or average, pledges or agreesthat such quotient shall be the amount of the verdict;but while compromise or chance verdicts are set aside, thetendency of the courts is to sustain verdicts which appearto indicate a getting together of the jurors by compromis-ing their differences of opinion, rather than to encourageobstinacy or tenacity of opinion on the part of individualjurors. So it is that a quotient verdict arrived at for thepurpose of seeing how nearly the average of the views of. MUNSON T. CASE Munson T. Case, born 1857, prepared for PrincetonCollege, New Jersey; read law under Charles J. Roe inNew Jersey and Judge A. K. Hadley, New York City;one of the reliable trial lawyers of the Chicago his services are enlisted in any litigation, hisclients count upon his thoroughness, his diligent researchof authorities and his loyalty to their interests to get thebest possible results. His name appears in many im-portant cases reported in the Supreme and AppellateCourt reports, and he has done much along the line ofpreserving the common law functions of jury trials,in securing reversals of directed verdicts. TOLD OUT OF COURT 219 all would suit the views of different jurors, if the jurorsare not committed in advance to accept the quotient astheir verdict, is not condemned by the courts. In a case tried before Judge Hanecy, my opponent wasJoseph B. Mann, now of Danville, 111., a ve
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