World Wide Tire Co. v. Brown

OPINION

MORSE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court which awarded the plaintiff, Almond Charles Brown, the sum of $454,-067.63, as reduced from jury findings totall-ing $465,000 in damages for an eye injury he received due to the negligence of the defendant, World Wide Tire Company. The principal question presented for review is whether portions of plaintiff’s jury argument constituted reversible error.

This case arose from an accident which occurred November 12, 1977, when a tire came off of a truck owned by James H. Shaw & Company and struck the window of the vehicle…