Adams v. United States Steel Corp.

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• affirming denial of new trial motion because trial counsel did not object to inconsistent verdicts prior to discharge of jury
• late claim of inconsistency may not be raised in a motion for a new trial
• failure to object to “either the form of the special questions or to the jury verdicts” before jury discharge, especially when “inconsistency is patent on verdict slip,” resulted in waiver
• although jury answers were inconsistent as matter of law, challenge was not timely and motion for new trial was properly denied
• a trial judge can resolve inconsistency in a jury's verdicts by \find[ing] a view of the evidence which harmonizes the answers\
• \A party must object to inconsistent answers to special questions before the jury is discharged\

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