Lowe's Home Centers, Inc. v. General Electric Co.

This is an appeal of the district court’s denial of General Electric Company’s (“GE”) post-trial motions for new trial and *1093for judgment as a matter of law in a diversity action brought by Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc. (“Lowe’s”) to recover damages as a result of GE’s environmental contamination of Lowe’s property in Rome, Georgia. More specifically, Lowe’s suit sought to determine GE’s liability for Lowe’s inability to build a new, significantly larger Relocation Store at the same location as their original Lowe’s store in Rome. Although various arguments were presented by GE in favor of the…