Wieder v. Towmotor Corp.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Defendant, Towmotor Corporation (Tow-motor), moving for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, argues generally that plaintiff’s 1 proofs are legally insufficient to support the verdict. Towmotor’s primary contentions in this products liability case are that plaintiff failed to adduce any evidence of a “defect”, that plaintiff’s alternative design concept is not feasible, that the intervening negligence of a third party was the proximate cause of the accident and that plaintiff’s counsel admitted to the jury that the third party’s…