Gifford ex rel. Orlando v. Golf

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

Action for $20,000 damages for personal injuries for negligently furnishing plaintiff a dangerous golf cart. Verdict and judgment were for defendant, but plaintiff received a new trial for errors in connection with Instruction 8 given at defendant’s request.

Upon oral argument appellant conceded that the court committed error in giving Instruction 8 and thus waived and abandoned that portion of its brief, leaving only its contention that any such error was harmless because it should have had a directed verdict at the close of the evidence for the reason that “the evidence…