Saide v. Stanton

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• concluding new trial could be limited to damages alone, though liability issue was strongly contested, where inadequacy in damage award resulted from trial court's erroneous instructions to jury regarding amounts includable in assessing damages
• concluding new trial could be limited to damages alone, though liability issue was strongly contested, where inadequacy in damage award resulted from trial court’s erroneous instructions to jury regarding amounts includable in assessing damages
• concluding new trial could be limited to damages alone, though liability issue was strongly contested, where inadequacy in damage award resulted from trial court's erroneous instructions to jury r egarding amounts includable in assessing damages
• when error relates to one issue, issues may be severed and new trial confined to contaminated issue
• Dentist’s refusal to estimate probable future dental expenses did not prevent fact-finder from assessing probable expenses based on the evidence as a whole.
• where the issues of liability and damages are so inextricably entwined that a fair trial cannot be given on this issue of damages alone, a new trial will be ordered on all issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).