Consolidated Waste Industries, Inc. v. Standard Equipment Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that because contributory negligence is “an actual legal defense,” and there was evidence that it may have applied, the defendant had a right to have the defense presented to the jury
• “[T]he decision to use a particular verdict sheet will not be reversed absent abuse of discretion. Moreover, Maryland appellate courts generally will not reverse even an unreasonable decision without evidence of prejudice/harm.”
• “Even when a trial court is found to have abused its discretion, it has long been the settled policy of this [C]ourt not to reverse for harmless error.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).