Case ID: so2d_608/html/0587-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. James CURRY, et al., Appellees.
    No. 91-96.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Dec. 1, 1992.
    Walton, Lantaff, Sehroeder & Carson and G. Bart Billbrough and Geoffrey B. Marks, Miami, for appellant.
    Bernard H. Butts, Jr., Hialeah, for appel-lees.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and GERSTEN, JJ.
   SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The judgment below is reversed for a new trial because the trial judge (a) instructed the jury in the precise manner determined to be erroneous in the later-decided and controlling case of State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co. v. Gomez, 605 So.2d 968 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992), and (b) incorrectly overruled a defense objection to opposing counsel’s statement — which may stand as the very definition of a golden rule argument — asking the jury to “[p]ut yourself in [the plaintiff’s] position, you can imagine the mental anguish and frustration.” See Klein v. Herring, 347 So.2d 681 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977).

Reversed and remanded.