Litton Industrial Products, Inc. v. Gammage

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when circumstances are consistent with either or two facts and nothing shows that one is more probable than the other, neither fact can be inferred
• holding a party who moves for judgment in form entered waives any error in the judgment
• refusing to credit “meager circumstantial evidence giving rise to inferences which are equally consistent”
• disapproving “practice by which a party, by motion, induces the trial court on the one hand to render a judgment, but reserves in a brief the right for the movant to attack the judgment if the court grants the motion”
• disapproving of “a practice by which a party, by motion, induces the trial court on the one hand to render a judgment, but reserves in a brief the right for the movant to attack the judgment if the court grants the motion”
• the only indication of disagreement with the verdict was in a separately filed trial brief

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