West v. Allied Signal, Inc.

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• noting that the vice president and part-time sales- person for the defendant testified in his deposition generally about the defendant’s sale of gloves and acknowledged that the defendant sold “asbestos gloves”
• noting that an inference is permissible and not “impermis- sible speculation” when “there is an experience of logical probability that an ultimate fact will follow a stated narra- tive of historical fact” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that an inference is permissible and not “impermissi- ble speculation” when “there is an experience of logical prob- ability that an ultimate fact will follow a stated narrative of historical fact” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• under ORCP 47 D, the court reviews a supporting affidavit as a whole to determine whether an objectively reasonable person would understand its contents to be based on the affiant's personal knowledge
• the jury is permitted to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence
• “The line between a reasonable inference that may permissibly be drawn by a jury from basic facts in evidence and an impermissible speculation is not drawn by judi- cial idiosyncrasies. The line is drawn by the laws of logic.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

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