Legal Opinion
Sylla-Sawdon v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 7, 1995No. 94-2267PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PIERSOL, District Judge.
Valerie K. Sylla-Sawdon, individually and as personal representative of the estate of her deceased minor son, Jesse Daniel Dur-mon, appeals from the judgment entered by the district court1 following a jury verdict in favor of Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company (Uniroyal), and from the district court’s denial of her new trial motion. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.
On August 15,1989, Sylla-Sawdon and her six-year-old son, Jesse Durmon, Michigan residents, were riding as passengers in a 1984 Mazda driven by Sylla-Sawdon’s mother, Yvonne Kirby, on a trip from…
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