Industrial Farm Home Gas Co. v. McDonald

I dissent. In my opinion the majority is this day doing violence to the established law on harmless error.

From at least as early as 1887 with the decision in Hames v. Harris, 50 Ark. 68, 6 S. W. 233, and as late as 1958 in Weatherford v. George, 229 Ark. 536, 317 S. W. 2d 147, this Court has consistently held that an error which does no prejudice to the complaining party is harmless and that such an error is not ground for reversal. In Weatherford v. George, supra, this Court made it abundantly clear that a failure to give a proper instruction is immaterial where the interrogatories and the…