Leskey v. Heath Engineering Co.

YETKA, Justice.

Defendant Heath Engineering Company appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to an adverse jury verdict in a products liability action. The principal issues on appeal are whether jury findings that a product is not defective but that the manufacturer was negligent are inconsistent and whether the trial court erred in awarding plaintiff medical and hospital expenses. We conclude that the findings are not inconsistent under our holding in Bigham v. J. C. Penney Co., 268 N.W.2d 892 (Minn. 1978), but that the award of medical and hospital expenses was improper. We, accordingly,…