Court Opinion

ID: 9675322
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:49:14.365089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:16:01.644425
License: Public Domain

WALKER, Chief Justice,
concurring in result.
Embarrassedly but not silently, I concur in the result. I was the trial judge in this case. This case was given to the jury upon a charge that was then felt to be in conformity with the concept of “streamlining the issues”, getting to the heart of the case and eliminating the verbage. It appeared to me that whether Mrs. Watson had a ruptured popliteal artery at the time the defendant examined her was the “gut question”, since a ruptured popliteal artery is what caused her ultimate problem. During the heat of battle, my focus became perhaps too narrow and too streamlined, thus eliminating all other legitimate bites at the apple. Thus I erred, thus I reverse myself and close with this soliloquy:
“It’s lonesome to stand before Bench and Bar,
without even a leaf to hide thee;
With error disclosed, yet tis better by far than to allow my pride to control me.”