Masters v. Courtesy Ford Co.

ON REHEARING

LBROWN, J.,

On Rehearing.

Initially, the jury reached the factual question of causation and, finding none, needed to go no further. A reviewing court must accord great deference to the trier’s factual decision unless it is clearly wrong or, as in this case, untrustworthy because of the exclusion of material evidence. On rehearing, we reaffirm our original conclusions that the jury’s verdict is to be afforded no deference and, with the inclusion in the record of the previously sealed statement of Randy Rainwater, that causation can and should, in the interest of judicial economy, be…