Rumptz v. Leahey

This action arises out of a collision between automobiles driven by the plaintiff, Thomas Rumptz, and the defendant, Frederick P. Leahey.

The defendant appeals a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff and asserts:(1) the trial judge erred when he refused to grant the defendant’s motion for a mistrial made after the plaintiff’s lawyer mentioned the name of an insurance company;(2) when the jury requested, after it had retired to consider its verdict, that the testimony of one of the plaintiff’s witnesses be read back to it, the cross-examination as well as the direct examination should have…