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- Title: Lowell v. Daly
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 11, 1961
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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The plaintiff Yvonne Lowell was the owner
and operator of a motor vehicle in which the
minor plaintiffs, Denise Lowell and Yvonne Rose
Lowell, who bring this action by their father and
next friend, Gilbert Lowell, were passengers.
Gilbert also sues, as an individual plaintiff, to
recover expenditures made by him as the husband of
Yvonne and father of Denise and Yvonne Rose. The
plaintiffs' car was struck in the rear by a car
owned by the defendant Francis E. Daly and operated
as a family car by the defendant Thomas E.
Daly. Both cars were traveling southerly along
Garden Street in Hartford, and the collision took
place while the plaintiffs' car was stopped at a
stop sign at the intersection with Charlotte Street.
The plaintiffs complain of the court's refusal to
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permit one of some eighteen questions to be asked
on the voir dire. Most of the other questions were
allowed, including a question as to whether any
venireman, or any member of his family, held
office or owned stock in any insurance company.
See Girard v. Grosvenordale Co., 82 Conn. 271,
279, 73 A. 747; note, 4 A.L.R.2d 761, 792. The
question excluded was as follows: "Would you feel
that you have any financial interest in this
lawsuit, or might in any way be affected by
awarding damages to the Plaintiffs?" A series of
articles in "The Hartford Courant," a daily
newspaper published and having a circulation in
Hartford County, had appeared during the period of
service of the array of veniremen from which the
jurors in this case were selected. The general
effect of these articles, according to the
plaintiffs, was to point out that the high
plaintiffs' verdicts currently being rendered were
the cause of a rise in the premium cost of motor
vehicle personal injury and property damage
liability insurance. The plaintiffs' question as
framed was vague and ambiguous. There was no
attempt to ask any venireman whether in fact he
had read any newspaper article which would
influence or affect his deliberations if he was
chosen as a juror in the case. Thus, there was
nothing to explain how a venireman who had been
asked the usual questions as to relationship to,
or connection with, the parties could have, or
feel that he had, any financial interest to be
affected by the outcome of the lawsuit. The
veniremen had stated on voir dire that if they
were chosen as jurors they could give a fair and
proper verdict on the evidence and the charge. In
amplification, the plaintiffs further complain of
the refusal of the court to permit them to elicit,
from a deputy sheriff, a report of a conversation
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