McBride v. Ford Motor Co.

The plaintiffs-appellants were denied a fair trial in this case because of errors in crucial evidentiary rulings and errors in instructions. Upon the record before us, this case should be remanded for a new trial because of those errors.

The majority today holds in Part I-A that “the court’s instructions, taken as a whole, correctly instructed the jury on the law applicable to the issues.” Supra at 62. However, the trial court failed in its duty to instruct the jury on the law of strict liability, which comprised the hub of plaintiffs’ case. Therefore, reversible error was committed and a new…