Edwards v. Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “Thus, despite the judge’s disagreement with the jury’s verdict, ‘the trial judge does not sit as a seventh juror with veto power.’” (quoting Laskey v. Smith, 239 So. 2d 13, 14 (Fla. 1970))
• “The power to direct a verdict should be cautiously exercised[.]”
• plaintiff in negligence action was entitled to a new trial on damages where the trial court admitted evidence that he failed to pay child support and defendant was allowed to insinuate that plaintiff, when he was in his early 20s, had a history of alcohol and drug use

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