Sunset Brick & Tile, Inc. v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. ““The biasness which is common to the quotient verdict or the toss of the coin, is the agreement by the jurors in advance to be bound by a result . . . even though at the time they make the agreement they do not know what that result will be. This amounts to a verdict by chance rather than by thought and reflection. [Citations omitted.] Here the jurors knew the amount that the attorneys were asking, not only from the petition but from the argument made to them by the appellees’ attorneys'. The affidavit itself verifies the harmless mental process of this juror where she says: ‘. . . some of the jurors wanted to give each one of the plaintiffs 100% of the amount that the attorneys asked for, but I did not feel that they were entitled to that much.’ The juror said that after much argument they all decided to give them 75%. The jurors are presumed to know with reasonable accuracy what 75% of a certain amount is, so in effect they were agreeing to a known amount. We hold that the statement made by juror Mann does not evidence a prior agreement to be bound by an unknown result.” 430 S.W.2d at 392 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Sigg