Court Opinion

ID: 9452635
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:46:50.232546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:17.691632
License: Public Domain

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I concur in the judgment of reversal solely because appellee, not content with presenting what would appear to me to have been a substantial case for its non-liability, insisted upon bringing to the jury’s attention the fact of a settlement by appellant with another party to the accident. And, when appellant in desperation urged that she at least be permitted to round out the jury’s information by acquainting it with the amount of the-settlement, appellee succeeded in keeping this out. If appellee thought the evidence was so closely balanced as to compel it to bring out this irrelevant and incomplete circumstance over the pointed and repeated objection of the appellant and under inadequate control by the court, then who am I at this remove to say that it did. not color the jury’s deliberations?