Court Opinion

ID: 9576328
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:23:16.538853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:05:43.318064
License: Public Domain

LUJAN, Justice (specially concurring). In so far as the opinion of Mr. Justice KIKER rests a reversal and award of a new trial on error in the court’s instruction No. 5, objected to at the time by plaintiff, enumerating instances of scheduled injuries amounting to total disability, I concur. Since the plaintiff’s injury was not of that kind or type, I am unable to rid myself of a feeling that giving the instruction tended to confuse the jury and, hence, resulted in prejudice to the plaintiff. I do not feel the facts of this case warrant application of the doctrine of fundamental error. But for the reason stated, I concur in the award of a new trial. COMPTON, C. J., concurs.