MILLER v. DADE COUNTY

No. 79-1059.

382 So.2d 851 (1980)

Robert MILLER, Appellant, v. DADE COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, Charles Holt, Individually, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Goldman, Colson & Hicks, Miami, for appellant.

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty. and Roy Wood, Asst. County Atty., for appellees.

Before HUBBART and NESBITT, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant seeks reversal of an order requiring a new trial or, in the alternative, a remittitur. The reasons recited by the trial court in its order together with the record proper indicate the verdict may have been influenced by inflammatory statements concerning matters outside the record made during summation. The trial court, because of its superior vantage point, had broad discretion in this matter. Cassat Avenue Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Bobenhausen...

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