Kenneth Balcom v. Lynn Ladder and Scaffolding Company, Inc., John S. Tilley Ladder Co., Inc., Third-Party

Appellant, a third-party defendant in a product liability case, appeals a district court judgment in favor of the defendant. The jury found for the defendant on the ground that the defective aspects of the product at issue, a ladder, did not cause the plaintiff’s injuries. The jury also found, via special verdict, that appellant made the ladder in question and that it was defective. Appellant argues that the district court should, somehow, have set aside the finding that the appellant made the ladder.

Appellant cannot appeal the district court’s failure to set aside this finding for the basic…