SAUNDERS v. SMITH

No. 77-2481.

382 So.2d 1254 (1980)

Douglas M. SAUNDERS and Nationwide Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Thomas J. SMITH and Claudia Smith, His Wife, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edna L. Caruso and Montgomery, Lytal, Reiter, Denney & Searcy, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Richard J. Meehan of DeSantis, Cook, Meehan, Cohen, Gaskill & Silverman, P.A., North Palm Beach, for appellees.


SIMONS, STUART M., Associate Judge.

For consideration in this appeal is the sole issue of whether certain comments by defense counsel on voir dire were so prejudicial as to authorize the granting of a new trial although no request for curative instructions was made, nor request for mistrial was made, nor demand made for a new venire. The case involved a knee injury and complications suffered by appellee Smith. Saunders concededly was at fault in a traffic accident...

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