Barrett v. Morris

WASSERSTROM, Judge.

This suit arises from an automobile intersection collision. The plaintiff-husband received a jury verdict in the amount of $18,500 damages for personal injuries suffered by him, and the plaintiff-wife was awarded $3,000 damages for loss of con-sortion. Defendant appeals, alleging the following two points of error: (1) that the trial court erred in not discharging the jury or in not granting a new trial, on the ground that insurance had been unlawfully injected into the case; and (2) that a mistrial should have been ordered or a new trial granted because plaintiffs’ counsel…