Nania v. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co.

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• concluding, in part, that the jury’s proximate cause determination made any inconsistencies in other aspects of the verdict form “surplusage”
• a party that participates in the preparation of jury instructions without objection cannot claim error on appeal
• a party that participates in the preparation of jury instructions without objection cannot claim error on appeal
• doctrine of “invited error” prevents a party from complaining about an inconsistency that arises from a special verdict form to which the party did not object at trial
• new trial properly denied where defendant insisted on the modification in the special verdict form which resulted in the claimed inconsistency urged as a basis for new trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).