Legal Opinion

Combs v. Stortz

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided January 9, 2009No. 2007-CA-001232-MRPublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

CAPERTON, Judge.

Ruth Combs (Combs) appeals from a verdict rendered by a jury of the Campbell County Circuit Court, the Honorable Fred A. Stine V presiding. Combs seeks to have the verdict vacated and the case remanded for a new trial solely on the issue of damages. Specifically, Combs asserts that the trial court erred in submitting a compound question to the jury on the “threshold issue,” that the trial court erred in denying Combs a directed verdict on the issue of Appellee Katie Stortz’s (Stortz) negligence, that the trial court erred in providing an apportionment instruction to the…

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