Newman v. Hy-Way Heat Systems, Inc.

SENTELLE, District Judge:

Plaintiffs in this personal injury action appeal from directed verdicts in favor of *270the defendants on claims of negligence and strict liability, alleging several errors centering around the trial court's striking of the testimony of plaintiffs’ sole expert witness and the sufficiency of the evidence with or without that testimony. Finding no merit in any of these assignments, we affirm.

Plaintiffs Bong Yang and William Newman were a workman and supervisor, respectively, at an asphalt plant. On the occasion in question, they undertook to clean an asphalt strainer…