Court Opinion

ID: 9577362
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:34:10.636002+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:20:26.836394
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*146OPINION
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING TO NO. 1546
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (Equitable) has petitioned for a rehearing contending that the case should be remanded to the trial court for a new trial or a hearing on the issue of whether a new trial should be held, based on our overlooking or misconceiving a material fact or question in the case.
Equitable has previously argued that the consideration of the direct negligence issue permitted prejudicial evidence to go to the jury adversely affecting its decision on the respondeat superior issue. At one point in our opinion, we stated: “We have carefully checked the record for instances of such potentially damaging testimony and find that while objections were occasionally made as to the form of particular questions, neither defendant ever objected on the ground of the relevance or the particularly prejudicial effect of the testimony”.
Equitable points out that at one point, counsel objected to the introduction of evidence pertaining to other sales campaigns conducted by it, the objections in part resting on the grounds of relevance. The testimony to which objection was made merely related to the fact that at the conclusion of the campaigns there were “wind up” parties during which alcoholic beverages were served. Such testimony had already been introduced prior to the objection in question and the testimony on the subject gave no indication of “wild partying” and excessive drinking so as to justify a contention of prejudicially affecting the jury’s decision. It was the details of the partying at Land’s End to which the court was principally referring in its opinion rather than the somewhat innocuous testimony pertaining to sales campaigns. Accordingly, we find no reason to reconsider our holding on this point.
Counsel has also suggested that we delete the final paragraph of the opinion wherein we refer to the Beaulieu1 case, for the reason that reference thereto “was made only in petitioner’s Statement of Points on Appeal; no contention was otherwise made in the proceedings below or on appeal that Beaulieu should be reversed.” Since it is apparent that this point on appeal was abandoned, we agree that the paragraph in question may be striken.
Therefore, the petition for rehearing is denied.

. Beaulieu v. Elliott, 434 P.2d 665 (Alaska 1967).