PETROLEUM CARRIERS CORP. v. SUMMERLIN

No. 826.

112 So.2d 12 (1959)

PETROLEUM CARRIERS CORP., a corporation, Appellant, v. James SUMMERLIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

May 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.C. Owen, Jr. (of Miller, Hewitt, Cone, Owen & Wagner), West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Hubert L. Gildan (of Hamilton & Nason), West Palm Beach, for appellee.


SHANNON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant below from an order granting a new trial. While the appellant poses three points in his brief, it is not necessary that we pass upon all of them. The court granted a new trial on the premise that one of the jurors, Richard J. Ramus, had unintentionally failed to disclose the fact that a claim had been previously made against him by one of the attorneys for the plaintiff. It appears from the record that Ramus was interrogated...

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