Hanson v. Binder

On this appeal we are concerned primarily with the validity of the order of the circuit court granting a new trial. As to this question we are, as often happens, confronted by a situation where reasonable minds may differ; but as the general conduct of a trial is largely within the discretion of the presiding judge, acts, mistakes, and incidental events intervening, which unfairly influence the result, may warrant, if not require, a new trial in the interests of justice.

There is no question as to the presence of causal negligence on appellant’s part; nor is there any question but that the…