Pepin v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.

WILLIAMS, J.,

This matter comes before the court en banc on plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial after a jury verdict in favor of defendant. Plaintiffs raise four issues in support of their motion, three of which relate to the trial court’s exclusion of certain proffered testimony and the fourth which is that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.

Timothy Pepin, a truck driver, was injured while a load of steel was being placed on his truck at defendant’s plant in Bethlehem, Pa. On the day of the accident, plaintiff had driven his flatbed trailer to a loading bay in the billet yard…