Goelz v. Knoblauch

The trial court, as indicated in its decision on the motions after verdict, was of the view that because the jury answered the second, third, fourth, and fifth questions of the special verdict, which were so framed as not to be answered unless the first question was answered in the affirmative, and because the jury answered the several subdivisions relating to damages “Nothing,” that such answers indicated a perverse verdict and that such perversity may have affected the jury’s answers to all the questions. In this connection the trial court in his decision said:

“All of this creates…