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145 F. 964

Docket No. 60.

Elliott v. Gilmore

United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania · decided 1906-05-17

<p>Trial — Amendment op Verdict jiy Court — Addition or Interest.</p> <p>A verdict may lie íUiiemlcd by Hie court by the addition ol' interest -where, it is conclusively shown by the affidavit of all of the jurors that it was their intention that interest should be computed on the amount awarded from a prior date.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see vol. 46, Cent. Dig. Trial, § 799.]</p>

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Relies on John Murphy v. Angus Stewart Administrator of Alexander Grant · Burlingame v. Central R. of Minn. · Cope v. Kidney

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Decided 1906-05-17

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¶1Trial — Amendment op Verdict jiy Court — Addition or Interest.

¶2A verdict may lie íUiiemlcd by Hie court by the addition ol' interest -where, it is conclusively shown by the affidavit of all of the jurors that it was their intention that interest should be computed on the amount awarded from a prior date.

¶3[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see vol. 46, Cent. Dig. Trial, § 799.]

¶4On Motion to Amend Verdict.

¶5Keator & Johnson, for plaintiff.

¶6Albert B. Weimer and John G. Johnson, for defendants.

¶7HOLLAND, District Judge.

¶8It is very evident that the jury in this case intended to render a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $2,500, with interest from the 1st day of July, 1902, to the date of the rendition of the verdict, which was April 20, 1906, so that the verdict should have been for $3,070.40 instead of $2,500. The verdict was rendered late in the day, and the jury separated. The following day, however, all the jurors signed an affidavit that it was their intention that the verdict should be for $2,500, with interest thereon from July 1, 1902. Under the circumstances we are of the opinion *965íhat the court is authorized to correct the verdict to conform to the intention of the jury. Burlingame v. Central Railway (C. C.) 23 Fed. 706; Cope v. Kidnev, 115 Pa. 228, 8 Atl. 836; Murphy v. Stewart, 43 U. S. 263, 11 L. Ed. 261.

¶9The order of the court, therefore, is that judgment he entered in favor of the plaintiff, Thomas R Elliott, and against the defendants, John O. Gilmore and Charles 4'. Schoen, for the sum of $3,07'0.40.

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