Sirmans v. Penn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a verbal mistake in the jury instruction was cured when the judge instructed the jury to rely on the written instruction that was correct
• trial court improperly instructed jury that, to be foreseeable, it must be ‘‘more likely than not’’ that injury would result from defendant’s negligence
• \We will reverse if the trial court's failure to give appropriate instructions to the jury undermined the jury's ability to intelligently perform its duty in returning a verdict.\
• injury is foresee- able when defendant ‘‘should reasonably have antici- pated that its conduct would create an unreasonably enhanced danger to one in the position of the injured plaintiff’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

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