Legal Opinion
Betty Karl v. Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 6, 1989No. 88-1092PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Burlington Northern Railroad Company appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict for $273,750 in favor of Betty Karl for injuries sustained in a railroad intersection collision. This case presents two troublesome issues concerning the way in which the district court handled the jury. First, the court orally instructed the jury after it returned inconsistent answers to several special interrogatories, and proceeded to resubmit the case to the jury. Second, the district court amended the damage amount rendered in the jury verdict because juror testimony and…
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