A challenge for implied
bias may be taken for any or all of the following causes, and not
otherwise:
(1) Consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree to
either party.
(2) Standing in the relation of guardian and ward, attorney
and client, master and servant or landlord and tenant, to a
party; or being a member of the family of, or a partner in
business with, or in the employment for wages, of a party, or
being surety or bail in the action called for trial, or
otherwise, for a party.
(3) Having served as a juror on a previous trial in the same
action, or in another action between the same parties for the
same cause of action, or in a criminal action by the state
against either party, upon substantially the same facts or
transaction.
(4) Interest on the part of the juror in the event of the
action, or the principal question involved therein, excepting
always, the interest of the juror as a member or citizen of the
county or municipal corporation.
[2003 c 406 § 7; Code 1881 § 212; 1877 p 44 § 216; 1869 p 52 § 216; 1854 p 165 § 187; RRS § 330.]