Prentice v Holmes Motors Limited - [1954] NZLR 1062

Practice — Jury — Special Jury — Misconduct — Two Members of Special Jury Directors of Companies which were Sub-agents of Insurance Company indemnifying Defendant — Jury's Verdict for Defendant — Such Members of Jury not bringing Relationship with Insurance Company to Notice of Court — No Personal Fault imputed to them — Reasonable Suspicion that Such Jurors subconsciously influenced by Their Relationship with Indemnifying Insurance Company and thereby influencing Views of other Jurors — Indemnifying Insurance Company identified with Defendant Company and Defendant Company with It — New Trial before Special Jury Ordered — Statutes Amendment Act, 1939, s 37 — Code of Civil Procedure, R 276.