GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. WERNSING

No. 808, September Term, 1982.

54 Md. App. 19 (1983)

456 A.2d 939

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION ET AL. v. LYNDA S. WERNSING ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr., with whom were Kathleen S. Downs and Joel A. Dewey on the brief, for appellant General Motors Corporation. L. Vernon Miller, Jr., with whom were Rouse, Underwood & Miller on the brief, for appellant Howard L. Seidel. Benjamin R. Goertemiller, Norman E. Parker, Jr., and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes on the brief, for appellant Gladding Chevrolet, Inc.

Michael L. Wilsman, with whom were Donald C. Allen and Allen, Thieblot & Alexander on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and WILNER, J., and CHARLES E. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is concerned with an accommodating bailiff who, without the knowledge of the trial judge or trial counsel, supplied a dictionary to the jury, thus contaminating it. The judge declined to order a new trial as a result of the bailiff's pollution of the jury. The trial court did, however, reduce the verdict from $1,630,284 to slightly less than half, $762,784. Obviously unsatisfied, the appellants, General...

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