Dillard v. Walsh Press & Die Co.

Plaintiff, James Dillard, filed a strict products liability action against defendant, Walsh Press & Die Company, after he was injured while operating a punch press which defendant manufactured. After a jury trial, a verdict was returned in plaintiff’s favor, and defendant now appeals raising the following issues: (1) whether it was an abuse of discretion to exclude certain testimony at trial; (2) whether it was an abuse of discretion to allow evidence of prior similar occurrences; (3) whether it was reversible error to change a ruling previously allowing defendant’s jury instruction after…