METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, ET AL., PETITIONERS,

v.

DIANE DILLON, ETC., RESPONDENT

Citator

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• Borden, Inc. v. Young, 479 So. 2d 850 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
  …nes, Inc. v. Martial, 380 So. 2d 1070 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980) (Schwartz, J., specially concurring), cert. denied, 388 So. 2d 1115 (Fla.1980); Metropolitan Dade County v. Dillon, 305 So. 2d 36 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974) (Barkdull, C.J., dissenting), cert. denied, 317 So. 2d 442 (Fla.1975).…
• Eagle-Picher Indus., Inc. v. COX, 481 So. 2d 517 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
  …the jury, and unless their remarks are highly prejudicial and inflammatory, counsel's statements made to the jury will not serve as a basis for reversing a judgment.” Metropolitan Dade County v. Dillon, 305 So. 2d 36 (Fla.3d DCA 1974), cert. denied, 317 So. 2d 442 (Fla.1975). See Honda Motor Co., Ltd. v. Marcus, 440 So. 2d 373 (Fla.3d DCA 1983), pet. for rev. dismissed, 447 So. 2d 886 (Fla.1984). Finally, we find no merit to the defendant’s claim that the jury was not properly instructed. . Eagle-Picher is j…
• B.G. Wasden v. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co., 474 So. 2d 825 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985)
  …, but unless the conduct is of the requisite inflammatory and prejudicial character, it must be tolerated absent contemporaneous objection. Decks, Inc. v. Nunez; Metropolitan Dade County v. Dillon, 305 So. 2d 36, 40 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974), cert. denied, 317 So. 2d 442 (1975). Wasden’s counsel’s comments, taken either singly or collectively, simply cannot be said to have had such a pervasive prejudicial effect that they precluded the jury’s rational consideration of the proper amount of Wasden’s damages: The stat…