Legal Opinion
Kathy L. Lavoie, Formerly Known as Kathy L. Labelle v. Pacific Press & Shear Company, a Division of Canron Corp., and Canron Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 10, 1992No. 1132, Docket 91-7774PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents a question of waiver. After a young industrial worker suffered a severe injury caused by the equipment she was operating, she sued and obtained a substantial verdict at the hands of a jury. The equipment maker asserts for the first time on appeal that written questions and a verdict form submitted by the trial judge and responded to by the jury resulted in an inconsistency that entitles it to a new trial. Because defendant had ample opportunity — as well as notice of the possible inconsistency to which it presently objects — throughout the entire…
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