Sterling Drug, Inc., a Corporation v. Maxine F. Cornish

McMANUS, District Judge.

This is an appeal in a diversity case from an $80,000.00 remitted judgment on a $110,000.00 jury award to a fifty year old Kansas citizen for permanent injury to her eyes caused by drug manufacturer’s failure to warn her doctors of a prescribed drug’s side effect.

Appellant’s grounds for appeal are as follows:

I. Refusal of the trial court to direct a verdict for appellant because there was insufficient evidence to support a verdict for the appellee.

II. Alleged errors in the court’s instructions to the jury and refusal to give certain of appellant’s requested…