Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement & Power District v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• addressing constitutionality of erroneous instruction under Article 18, § 5 even though jury returned general verdict for the defense and could have found for prevailing party on basis not affected by the error
• permissive instructions “leave the plaintiff’s recovery to the discretion of the jury.”
• “Whe[n] an erroneous instruction has been given on the law, and a correct instruction might have produced a different result, the error is not cured by the fact that the jury might have found for the prevailing party on some basis unaffected by the error.”

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