Kovach v. Solomon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the trial court gives a specific reason for ordering a new trial, an appellate court must examine only the stated reason
• finding a fact finder may be permitted to draw an adverse inference due to a party's failure to produce evidence within his or her control
• “The narrow question in this case ... is whether the local rule in Northampton County is relevant to whether a witness is ‘equally available’ or ‘peculiarly within the knowledge and reach’ of the party who had earlier stated he or she would call that witness. It is.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).