Lytle v. Stearns

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Six, J.:

This is a personal injury case with a posture influenced by multi-defendant settlements before trial. We are called upon to review the application of our rule established in Ratterree v. Bartlett, 238 Kan. 11, 707 P.2d 1063 (1985), concerning the giving of settlement information to a jury. The issues arise from a survival and wrongful death action filed by the parents of a deceased daughter who was a passenger in a car involved in a head-on automobile collision.

We shall consider asserted trial court error in: (1) submitting settlement…