The Jacobs Manufacturing Company v. Sam Brown Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a district court’s grant of a new trial based on a finding that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence
• “Postverdict interrogatories may imply the jury’s verdict is unjustified and cause the jury to answer the interrogatories in a man ner inconsistent with the verdict.”
• correct standard for new trial is conclusion that “the [jury’s] verdict was against the ‘great weight’ of the evidence, so that granting a new trial would prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
• correct standard for new trial is conclusion that “the [jury’s] verdict was against the ‘great weight’ of the evidence, so that granting a new trial would prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
• it is inadequate for court to state “for all of the reasons previously discussed” as ground for granting new trial, particularly if the reasons previously discussed were in relation to a motion for judgment as a matter of law, because standards for resolving the two kinds of motions differ
• it is inadequate for court to state “for all of the reasons previously discussed” as ground for granting new trial, particularly if the reasons previously discussed were in relation to a motion for judgment as a matter of law, because standards for resolving the two kinds of motions differ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).