Eyre v. McDonough Power Equipment, Inc.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal in a Louisiana diversity case requires us to determine whether the evidence presented at trial was of such a kind and character as to require that the plain*418tiffs’ verdict rendered by the jury be left undisturbed, or whether the trial judge’s actions in granting judgment non obstante for the defendant, or in the alternative a new trial, were correct. We reverse the judgment but affirm the granting of new trial.

Facts

The action is one in product liability and negligence for claimed design defects and failures to warn of dangerous qualities of a rotary power mower.…