MORRIS v. WEDDINGTON

No. 53, September Term, 1988.

320 Md. 674 (1990)

579 A.2d 762

BRENDA S. MORRIS, INDIVIDUALLY, ETC. v. WILLIAM H. WEDDINGTON, JR., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 26, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey S. Wasserman (Joel L. Katz, P.A., both on brief), Annapolis, for petitioner.

William J. Rowan, III (Rowan, Abell & Quirk, both on brief), Rockville, for respondents.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, ADKINS, BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (Retired, Specially Assigned).


COLE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to determine whether a witness's inadvertent statement that the defendant in a personal injury case did not have automobile insurance coverage is sufficient grounds for a mistrial and whether the trial court later acted within its discretion in denying a motion for a new trial.

The facts which gave rise to this controversy are neither complicated nor in dispute. What occurred at trial is somewhat complicated, however...

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