Continental Casualty Company v. Ervin Howard, D/B/A Lafayette Components

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• character evidence is not admissible where the party’s character is not at issue
• “When the question of damages ‘is so interwoven with that of liability that the former cannot be submitted to the jury independently of the latter without confusion and uncertainty’ granting a partial trial on the issue of damages would amount to a denial of a fair trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).