Moorman v. American Safety Equipment

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting \the societal interest in furnishing only a single occasion for the trial of civil disputes\
• reasoning that jury’s verdict for the defense on strict liability while finding for plaintiff on negligence could indicate jury found “the defect arose later . . . and that the manufacturer was therefore negligent in failing to warn of the potential hazard”
• appellants waived inconsistency argument because they failed to object to verdict before jury was discharged
• “Curiously, the court cites our Robbins decision for this proposition, but there is really nothing in it to support the citation.”
• “It is quite basic that objections as to the form of the verdict or to inconsistent verdicts must be made while the jury is still available to correct them.”
• “It is quite basic that objections as to the form of the verdict or to inconsistent verdicts must be made while the jury is still available to correct them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).