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0761 If all jurors write on slips of paper the amounts they believe should be awarded and an average is made of the numbers they have written, their award is not invalid as a quotient verdict so long as the process was used as a focus for discussion by the jurors and the verdict they reached was the product of that discussion; in the face of conflicting juror affidavits about whether the verdict was reached by quotient or by discussion, the trial court's conclusion about the credibility of the various affidavits should not be disturbed except for an abuse of discretion.CitationFREDRICS v PAIGE (Quotient Verdict) 29 CA4 1642 [See: CCP 657.2; Dixon v Pluns 98 C 384; Chronakis v Windsor 14 CA4 1058, T/AT 6/93; Weathers v Kaiser 5 C3 98; Schelbauer v Butler 35 C3 442]
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