indifferent person

indifferent person
One without interest in favoring either party to an action or in doing anything to the prejudice of either party. 45 Am J1st Rec § 131. A person so situated with reference to certain other persons that there is not such a relation between him and them as could bias his mind and induce him to act with partiality. Mitchell v Kirtland, 7 Conn 228, 231.

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