Hollar v. Cain

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity medical malpractice action, the plaintiff-appellant Stanley Hollar (“Hollar”) has contested the trial court’s final judgment in favor of all defendants. On review, he has charged that the district judge improperly directed a verdict for certain defendants, and that alleged trial errors tainted the jury verdict in favor of the remaining defendants. He has requested a new trial against all defendants.

On the evening of Wednesday, January 31, 1996, Hollar, then a twenty-year-old student at Kentucky Christian College, was playing “goalie” in an indoor…