Court Opinion

ID: 9654124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:07:07.130143+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:06.176573
License: Public Domain

MASSEY, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I do not agree with my brothers upon the propriety of reversal because of appellant’s opinion testimony. While I concur that such testimony was improper, I do not believe that appellee has discharged the burden of demonstrating that it probably caused the jury to return a verdict other than the verdict it would otherwise have returned but for the error. T.R.C. P. 434.
I would adhere to the original judgment instructing the trial court to enter a judgment on the verdict, thereafter to entertain the defendant’s motion for new trial on grounds which he has informed this court he wishes to present, and upon which the trial court has not yet had opportunity to pass.