Legal Opinion
Gerald Bunting, Representative of Decedent Tracy Bunting v. Sea Ray, Inc. Mercury Marine, a Division of Brunswick Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 11, 1996No. 96-1080PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Gerald Bunting appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion for a new trial after an adverse jury verdict on his products liability and wrongful death action. He also appeals several of the district court’s eviden-tiary rulings. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On September 9, 1990, Tracy Bunting (Tracy) died of carbon monoxide poisoning while swimming near his parents’ boat on Peaceful Valley Lake, Missouri. The boat was a Sea Ray Runabout with a 230 horsepower Mereruiser motor. The rear of the boat had a platform, from which swimmers could enter and exit the boat. This…
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