Opinion ID: 1841676
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Heading: Remarks of Appellees' Counsel in Closing Argument

Text: Lastly, Appellants point to closing remarks before the jury by counsel for the Appellees, which they deem grossly unfair and prejudicial. We find no merit in this contention. During his closing remarks, counsel for the Leaches said: This isn't the first time folks have asked for and gotten large punitive damages. Right here in Montgomery County it has happened very recently. Counsel for Appellants timely objected; the objection was sustained; and the court instructed the jury to disregard the remarks. Assuming, without deciding, impropriety on the part of counsel in making the comments objected, to, we find no reversible error because Appellants received what they asked for. No further request was made and no adverse ruling was invoked. Calloway v. Lemley, 382 So.2d 540 (Ala. 1980); Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Gambrell, 262 Ala. 290, 78 So.2d 619 (1955). Therefore, Appellants cannot now be heard to complain of trial court impropriety. Because the cross appeal is expressly predicated upon the condition that ... this court reverse and remand this case based upon the appeal, the cross appeal is rendered moot by this Court's affirmance of the judgment upon which the appeal is based. AFFIRMED AS TO THE APPEAL AND THE CROSS APPEAL. ALMON, SHORES and BEATTY, JJ., concur. TORBERT, C. J., concurs in the result.