Smith v. Hopper

| ]This is an appeal from the grant of a new trial.1 Appellant, plaintiff below, sued for negligence; after a trial, the jury awarded damages. Appellee, defendant below, filed a motion for a new trial, complaining that plaintiff s counsel had misrepresented certain facts to the jury during closing argument. We hold that the circuit court acted within its discretion when it granted appellee a new trial; accordingly, we affirm.

This case arose from a pedestrian collision. Kartika Hopper was driving her car, turned at an intersection, and suddenly collided with Michelle Smith in a crosswalk.…