Volume 127 — Washington Reports

<p>Appeal from an order of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered May 13, 1922, refusing to appoint a receiver for a corporation and dismissing an action to dissolve the corporation, upon the complaint and opening statement of counsel.</p>

<p>Appeal from an order of the superior court for Thurston county, Wilson, J., entered July 2, 1923, granting plaintiff a new trial, after a nominal verdict for plaintiff in an action for personal injuries.</p>

<p>Cbiminal Law (363) — New Tbial (49)- — Proceedings—Affidavits of Juboes to Impeach Verdict. The verdict of a jury in a criminal case cannot he impeached by the affidavit of a juror that he did not understand the testimony of the accused, who was a foreigner and spoke English imperfectly, especially where counsel did not ask for an interpreter.</p> <p>Trial (118%) — Deliberations of Jury — Taking Exhibit to Jury Room — Statutes. Rem. Comp. Stat., § 351, providing that the jury may take to the jury Room all papers which have been received in evidence, is not applicable to an affidavit which was ruled out and withdrawn, except as to one sentence, which was read to the jury.</p>

, entered February 10, 1923, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for damages from the taking of land without compensation.

<p>Waters and Water Courses (82) — Public Supply — Regulation— Powers op Department of Public Works — Issues and Pleadings. Under the statute governing a hearing before the department of public works requiring that “all grievances to be inquired into shall be plainly set forth in the complaint," the department has no jurisdiction to order a public service company to install water meters, where the complaint merely alleged that defective distribution prevented customers from receiving their needed amount of water, and no evidence as to the necessity of meters was offered by either party.</p>

, entered April 4, 1923, upon findings in favor of an intervener upon a cross-complaint for the value of betterments, in an action to foreclose a mortgage, tried to the court.

<p>Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Grays Harbor county, Abel, J., entered March 31,1923, upon finding’s in favor of the plaintiff, in an action on contract, tried to the court.</p>