Barry v. Manglass

While I share the majority’s opinion that the parties were bound by the legal instructions in which they acquiesced, we part company on the issue of GM’s preservation of the inconsistency inherent in the complex of verdicts as they were reported by the jury.

The verdicts eventuated from an automobile accident which occurred in a 50-mile per hour zone of a two-lane highway in Ramapo, Rockland County, when, as some of the testimony later was to develop, a Chevrolet Nova, of *807General Motors Corporation (GM) manufacture, made an unexpected left turn at approximately 55 to 60 miles per hour into the…