Legal Opinion
Patton v. TIC United Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1996No. Nos. 94-3296, 94-3297PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
We review appeals from a final judgment in a products liability diversity action. The defendant appeals the jury verdict against it as well as the court’s imposition of punitive damages. The plaintiffs, by cross-appeal, challenge the district court’s application of a Kansas damage cap, Kan.Stat.Ann. § 60-19a02, to reduce the jury’s award of noneco-nomic damages. We affirm.
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Ryan Patton was raised on his family’s farm in Hiawatha, Kansas. His father purchased a Wil-Rich vertical wing cultivator in 1977. The 23-foot-wide cultivator has two eight-foot-long wings which can be…
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