Eighth Circuit· 3/13/1985
Hale v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Citations
- 756 F.2d 1322
- 1 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1602
How courts have described this case
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- acknowledging that comments made by the district court outside the presence of the jury do “not affect the jury”
- \a party may not offer evidence or advance theories during trial which violate the terms of a pretrial order.\
- district court improperly allowed evidence of prior accidents involving “explosive separation of RH5° rims, with no restriction as to the circumstances or the dates of the accidents”
- “An objection at trial on one ground will not enable the objecting party to rely on appeal on other grounds that were not stated in the trial objection.”
- district court improperly allowed evidence of prior accidents involving “explosive separation of RH5E rims, with no restriction as to the circumstances or the dates of the accidents”
- court’s comment in product liability case that he had “put air in a lot of tires, but [he] never had one blow up on [him]” not sufficient for reversal, because this was a minor incident in a lengthy trial
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Judges: McMillian
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