Johnson v. Artkraft Strauss Sign Corp.

Despite the objections of all the defendants, the trial court submitted this case to the jury for a special verdict, instead of a general verdict and, accordingly, gave the jury 11 questions which were to be answered.

The court announced, before summations, that it would give the jury a charge limited to general instructions on the subject of negligence and would reserve to itself the application of the Labor Law provisions and the final determination of liability, as the court deemed proper, on the basis of the answers which the jury would give to the specific questions given to them.

While we…