Mine Safety Appliance Co. v. Holmes

¶ 65. The majority reverses and renders the present case for two reasons. First, the majority finds that the trial court erred by denying Mine Safety Appliance Company’s.(MSA’s) motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) on Huey Holmes’s failure-to-warn claims, because Holmes had made an inadequate-warnings claim, as opposed to a claim for lack of any warnings. Second, the majority holds that the trial court erred by denying MSA’s motion for JNOV on Holmes’s design-defect claim, which it found to have been obviated by Holmes’s testimony at trial that he never changed the filter in…