Hernandez v. Baucum

POPE, Justice.

The jury awarded A. T. Baucum, appel-lee, $81,636 for neck and back injuries sustained when appellant Jacinto Hernandez drove a truck into the rear of appellee’s car. Appellants, defendants below, complain that reference to a chart 1 and a mathematical formula in arguing damages was harmful. Appellants also complain of appellee’s reference during cross-examination to abandoned pleadings which omitted the defense of sudden brake failure.

Prior to the argument, appellants’ attorney in chambers anticipated that ap-pellee’s counsel was going to display a chart to the jury which…