Wiggins v. Heim’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1976
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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““We agree wholeheartedly with these comments and acknowledge that the trial court may have erred in failing to enter a pre-trial order. However, we do not ascribe reversible error to such failure in this case. Trial Rule 61 provides in part that no error in anything omitted by the court is ground for reversal on appeal, unless refusal to reverse would be inconsistent with substantial justice. The rule further provides that any error not affecting the substantial rights of the parties must be disregarded. “In deciding whether the school’s substantial rights were affected we must examine the alleged harm it suffered as a result of the trial court’s error. It contends that the lack of a pretrial order resulted in evidence being admitted which was irrelevant and immaterial in that it went beyond the scope of the allegations of negligence as framed by the complaint. It suggests that had a pre-trial order been entered the issues would have been so narrowed as to preclude the admission of the questioned evidence. “We feel that the proper inquiry when faced with an issue such as this concerns whether or not the purposes of Trial Rule 16 have been so frustrated by the lack of an order as to affect the school’s substantial rights. Paragraph (A) of the rule specifies one of the purposes of the conference as being to consider the simplification of the issues. Paragraph (J) provides that the pre-trial order shall recite ‘the agreements made by the parties as to any of the matters consider”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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