Adkins v. Aluminum Co. of America
| Decision Date | 09 June 1988 |
| Docket Number | No. 53309-1,53309-1 |
| Citation | 756 P.2d 142 |
| Parties | Jerry ADKINS and Teresa Adkins, husband and wife, Appellants, v. ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA, a foreign corporation, Respondent. |
| Court | Washington Supreme Court |
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the opinion filed in Adkins v. Aluminum Co. of Am., 110 Wash.2d 128, 750 P.2d 1257 (1988) on March 3, 1988 is clarified as follows:
At 110 Wash.2d, page 143 [], the following second sentence in the first full paragraph is deleted:
We conclude that in this case the improper argument presumptively affected the outcome of the trial and requires reversal.
and the following sentence is substituted in lieu thereof:
Because the inconsistency in the verdicts may well have been due to the improper argument in this case, and because the trial court failed to sustain Adkins' objection and give a prompt curative instruction, we conclude that the improper argument presumptively affected the outcome of the trial and requires reversal.
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