Margaret Crane v. Crest Tankers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the district court’s error in admitting certain evidence was not harmless because “the jury’s damage award would [not] have been the same absent the erroneous admission”
• concluding that the district court’s error in admitting certain evidence was not harmless because “the jury’s damage award would [not] have been the same absent the erroneous admission”
• “It has long been held that life expectancy tables are admissible in damage actions for the consideration of the probabilities of damage over a period of years.”
• “It has long been held that life expectancy tables are admissible in damage actions for the ‘consideration of the probabilities of damage over a period of years.’”
• “[T]he mere fact that error was committed by admitting the exhibit does not mandate reversal. An error, in order to be reversible, must affect a substantial right of the objecting party, and the burden of showing prejudice rests on that party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).