McDonnell v. McPartlin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that a trial court is vested with broad discretion to determine the propriety of declaring a mistrial
• noting that a defendant may “defeat a plaintiff’s claim of negligence by establishing proximate cause solely in the act of another not a party to the suit”
• interpreting the language of the jury instruction to determine whether the instruction should have been given
• stating that where the jury found in favor of the defendants on the issue of liability and thus never reached the question of damages, the court \need not * * * consider whether the trial court erred in permitting such evidence and argument.\
• “[Negligent conduct and proximate cause are distinct, albeit related, concepts. Given their relationships, there is a pronounced tendency when considering one to include the other.”
• although the trial court erred in permitting certain questions, the error was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).