Marek v. Stepkowski

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• rejecting defendants’ argument that the jury’s verdict was unclear where the jury had found the two defendants liable as joint tortfeasors and then erroneously attempted to allocate damages equally between them
• rejecting defendants’ argument that the jury’s verdict was unclear where the jury had found the two defendants liable as joint tortfeasors and then erroneously attempted to allocate damages equally between them
• while assumption of risk may reduce recovery in a battery action, it does not bar it
• because the “trial court may reject surplusage and mold a verdict into the proper form where the jury’s resolution of the issues it was to decide is clear,” the trial court properly ignored jury notations on verdict form

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).