Ellis Vs Glayson Summary

Facts: This case was brought about when Jean Price, the plaintiff, filed a lawsuit against Lorene Ellis and Henrietta Glayson, the defendant and co-defendant, claiming that they had maliciously and falsely accused ms. Price of adultery and defamed Ms. Price’s reputation to her husband. On May 9th, 1995, Ms. Glayson called the plaintiff’s husband to inform him that his wife, who was three months pregnant, had an affair with another man and that the child Ms. Price was carrying could possibly be the other man’s. The plaintiff had a miscarriage on May 16th, 1995. Price alleged in her complaint against Ellis and Glayson she underwent personal humiliation, embarrassment, weightloss, difficulty sleeping and eating, and injury to her reputation. The plaintiff already had complications with her pregnancy and did not claim that the phone call caused the miscarriage. A motion in limine was filed a day before the trial by Ellis and Glayson asking that the evidence concerning the plaintiff’s pregnancy and the miscarriage be withheld from the trial due to the claim that the evidence would prejudice the jury in …show more content…
Price’s pregnancy and miscarriage from the court, but it was ruled that the plaintiff, along with her witnesses, were not to say that the miscarriage was a direct result of the phone call that the defendant placed to the plaintiff’s husband. The trial courts allowed the pregnancy and miscarriage to be discussed, but only as it pertained to the plaintiff’s state of mind. The appellate court stated that in the plaintiff’s opening statement, she clearly said the miscarriage was caused by the phone call, but because of the unborn child’s heart problem; the appellate court affirms the trial court’s decision because the trial court judge gave the jury a cautionary statement claiming that it was not part of the