Torre v. Harris-Seybold Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “both the express terms of the statute and case law in the area reserve a large measure of discretion to the trial judge in passing on admissibility”
• likewise, “resolution of approval concerning the type of machine in question by the Board of Standards and Appeals of the State of New York”
• “Trial counsel in a civil case must object to the improper conduct of opposing counsel, thereby alerting the judge to the impropriety, to preserve the issue for appeal”
• “a good objection [to the charge] will lie only if a critical issue was not dealt with at all or was dealt with erroneously as a matter of law”
• adequacy of instruction must be determined by examining charge as a whole
• “Our deference to the trial judge’s role on these motions recognizes the historical antecedents of the power, as well as the principle that its wise exercise is not in derogation of the right of a trial by jury but is one of the historical safeguards of the right”

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