WERNSING v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 38, September Term, 1983.

298 Md. 406 (1984)

470 A.2d 802

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

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Wilsman, Baltimore (Donald C. Allen and Allen, Thieblot & Alexander on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

Francis B. Burch, Jr., Baltimore (Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr., Joel A. Dewey and Piper & Marbury, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee, General Motors Corp.

L. Vernon Miller, Annapolis (Rouse, Underwood & Miller, on brief), Annapolis, for appellee, Howard L. Seidel.

Benjamin R. Goertemiller, Norman E. Parker, Jr. and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, on brief, for appellee, Gladding Chevrolet, Inc.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

In this personal injury action, reported as General Motors Corp. v. Wernsing, 54 Md.App. 19, 456 A.2d 939 (1983), the Court of Special Appeals held that the trial court had abused its discretion by denying a new trial sought by defendants because of juror misconduct. A dictionary had been used in connection with deciding proximate causation during jury deliberations. We...

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