GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal is concerned with an accommodating bailiff who, without the knowledge of the trial judge or trial counsel, supplied a dictionary to the jury, thus contaminating it. The judge declined to order a new trial as a result of the bailiff's pollution of the jury. The trial court did, however, reduce the verdict from $1,630,284 to slightly less than half, $762,784. Obviously unsatisfied, the appellants, General...
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