Town of Poseyville v. Lewis

— The appellee recovered damages for an injury received while walking along a sidewalk belonging to the appellant. The general verdict was in his favor.

The general verdict necessarily determines all the material questions in favor of the appellee, and unless the facts stated in the answers to interrogatories are so clearly antagonistic to the decision impliedly embodied in the general verdict as to be irreconcilable with it the judgment must stand. This rule has been so long and so well settled that it requires no discussion. Cincinnati, etc., R. R. Co. v. Clifford, 113 Ind. 460.

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