Constantina Szeliga v. General Motors Corporation

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• “Dissimilarities between experimental and actual conditions affect the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility”
• the remedy for surprise in the introduction of evidence is not to seek reversal after an unfavorable jury verdict, but a request for continuance at the time surprise occurs
• no error to admit films in products liability action to illustrate the defendant’s theory of the cause of the accident; dissimilarities between experimental and actual conditions affect the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).