Howard v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

I. STATEMENT OF CASE

Under a policy of insurance issued to him by the defendant appellee, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, the plaintiff-appellant, Robert Howard, seeks to recover the damages he claims to have sustained as the result of an automobile fire. Pursuant to verdict, the district court entered judgment in favor of State Farm. Howard asserts the district court erred in (1) failing to strike certain venirepersons for cause, (2) permitting him to be improperly impeached, (3) failing to grant his motion to strike State Farm’s amended answer, (4) failing to grant his motion…