Court Opinion

ID: 9444368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 20:58:31.048994+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:50.552990
License: Public Domain

SIMONS, Chief Judge
(concurring).
The protection afforded by insurance against damages resulting from the operation of motor vehicles is now so universally sought, especially by the operators of commercial vehicles on the highways, that a court may take judicial notice of this prevailing practice and the knowledge of it by jurors, even in the absence of a reference to an insurance carrier at the trial. My view is that a mistrial should never be granted because of *36such information there disclosed on the ground that it was prejudicial, except, perhaps, in those cases where the disclosure was manifestly an appeal to passion or prejudice deliberately injected by the plaintiff.