Marsh v. Washburn

The plaintiff is appealing from the judgment rendered by the trial court after a jury returned a defendant’s verdict. The plaintiff, in a broad-based attack upon the conduct of the trial judge, claims that the court erred (1) in improperly allowing the defendant to attack the credibility of the plaintiff by suggesting she had committed welfare fraud and then in giving a curative instruction specifically intended to lend credence to the accusation, (2) in assuming the role of advocate in its charge to the jury and by instructing the jury to disregard that part of the plaintiff’s closing…