Aylor v. Glover

By Judge Thomas D. Horne

This case came before the Court on the plaintiffs renewed motion for a mistrial and to set aside the jury verdict and grant him a new trial. Plaintiff contends that the Court failed to properly instruct the jury at the close of the evidence and that defense counsel improperly interjected into her closing argument a reference to plaintiffs purported history of alcoholism. As was noted earlier from the bench, the Court finds that the jury was properly instructed upon the issues raised by the evidence and that the two instructions posited by plaintiff, which are the…