MURRAY-OHIO MFG. CO. v. PATTERSON

No. 79-42.

385 So.2d 1035 (1980)

The MURRAY-OHIO MANUFACTURING COMPANY, a Foreign Corporation, and California Union Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, and Employers Reinsurance Corporation, a Foreign Corporation, Appellants, v. Ernest B. PATTERSON and June M. Patterson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest J. Rice, Orlando, for appellants.

Hale Baugh of Stromire, Westman, Lintz, Baugh, McKinley, Antoon, Clifton & Pearce, P.A., Cocoa, for appellees.


SCHWARTZ, ALAN R., Associate Judge.

The defendant below, the manufacturer of an allegedly defective lawn tractor, appeals from a judgment rendered against it upon an adverse jury verdict in a strict liability case. The only point which gives us pause concerns the rebuttal portion of the plaintiffs' final argument, in which counsel improperly referred to the Ford Pinto and Firestone 500 cases notwithstanding the fact that the trial judge had twice sustained objections...

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