Moody v. Pulte Homes, Inc

This is an action for personal injury damages arising out of a construction-site accident in which the plaintiff, Marvin Moody, lost a portion of the fingers of his left hand. We granted leave to appeal in order to consider a number of assignments of error relating to the trial court’s handling of the jury-instruction phase of the trial, specifically, the court’s refusal to advise counsel before final argument what instructions the jury would be given, the failure to give the "material substance” of the plaintiffs’ theories of the case, and the refusal to give a number of proposed jury…