Gordon v. Nall

Appellants present four issues which they claim warrant reversal of a judgment in the amount of $750,000. We will discuss only two of those issues. They are:(1) whether final arguments by plaintiff's counsel that the corporate defendant "doesn't have a soul, it has a board of directors," is so highly prejudicial as to warrant reversal; and(2) whether it constituted prejudicial error to admit, over objection, hearsay evidence concerning defendant's prior acts of negligence.

Marcvtia Larvet Nall, then a three-year-old child, was severely injured when she was struck by an automobile driven by the…