# Morehead v. Brown

> New York Supreme Court · February 4, 1891 · 13 N.Y.S. 197

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5500162

## Case

- **Full name:** Morehead, Overseers of the Poor v. Brown
- **Court:** New York Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 4, 1891
- **Citations:** 13 N.Y.S. 197; 35 N.Y. St. Rep. 766; 59 Hun 617; 1891 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1026
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Landon
- **Judges:** Landon, Learned
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Landon, J.
I think the judgment of the justice’s court was right upon the merits, and that the errors complained of did not prejudice the defendant. Code Civil Proe. § 3063. The verdict was in writing, and accords with the illiteracy which is often an accepted test of the impartiality of jurors. The practice of requiring a verdict in writing is not prescribed by law, and, if technical inaccuracy is to be made a pretext for setting it aside, cannot be too vigorously condemned. I advise a reversal of the judgment of the county court.
Mayham, J., concurs.

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