Legal Opinion
Benjamin Harrison and Rosalind Harrison v. Sears, Roebuck and Company and Emerson Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 9, 1992No. 92-1055PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRODY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, Benjamin and Rosalind Harrison, appeal from a judgment entered after a jury verdict denying them relief in a personal injury suit against Sears, Roebuck & Company and Emerson Electric Company. Plaintiffs appeal several evidentiary rulings of the trial court including: the admission of an x-ray as evidence, an instruction to the jury on the significance of the x-ray, the exclusion of certain expert testimony, and the exclusion of evidence of subsequent remedial measures to the product which allegedly caused the injury in question. Because we are satisfied that…
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