Summoning assessors.
Section 59
SEC. 59. Summoning assessors. — The person so selected as assessors shall, under the direction of the justice of the peace, be summoned to attend and serve as assessors in the action, and a summons for that purpose shall be served in the same manner as other writs or summons. If any person summoned to act as assessor fails, without reasonable excuse, to attend at the trial or any adjournment thereof, or to continue to serve throughout the trial, he shall be liable under a summary order of the court to a fine not exceeding ten dollars; but the justice may, on reasonable cause shown, excuse from attendance in any particular action any person summoned as assessor, and may, for like cause, discharge from attendance in any action, a person who is acting as assessor thereon. In case of any person so excused, the vacancy thus created shall be filled in the manner provided in section fifty-eight.