Lloyd Wood Construction Co. v. Little

The majority finds that the jury instructions in both cases were “hopelessly muddled.” If the juries were so inadequately instructed, why not simply reverse and remand for new trials? Instead, the majority has assumed the role of thirteenth juror and muddled the mandates of cases they claim were already fraught with error in the courts below.

We do not review jury instructions in isolation, rather, we read them as a whole to determine whether a jury was properly instructed. Payne v. Rain Forest Nurseries, Inc., 540 So.2d 85, 40 (Miss.1989). “Imperfections in particular instructions do not…