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HARFORD SANDS, INC. v. GROFT

No. 142, September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 136 (1990)

577 A.2d 7

HARFORD SANDS, INC. v. STEVEN T. GROFT ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael G. Middleton (Middleton, Waters and Shavers, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Lee H. Ogburn (Kathleen A. Birrane, Kramon & Graham, P.A., all on brief), Baltimore, Victor D'Avella, Bel Air (argued), for respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and CHASANOW, JJ.

ADKINS, Judge.

Aggrieved when a jury awarded it only $4,000 instead of the $1.1 million it was seeking, Petitioner, Harford Sands, Inc. (Harford Sands) sought a new trial because a juror had obtained certain information from a source extraneous to the trial. The Circuit Court for Harford County rejected that plaint, as did the Court of Special Appeals. So do we. Balancing "the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter in relation to the circumstances...

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