Malek v. Malek

How courts have described this case

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• finding general verdict rule inapplicable because defect would impact jury’s consideration of both bases for liability
• ‘‘[i]n this case, there was a general denial and a special defense of contributory negligence’’
• “[t]he general verdict rule operates to prevent an appellate court from disturbing a verdict that may have been reached under a cloud of error, but is nonetheless valid because the jury may have taken an untainted route in reaching its verdict” [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).