Legal Opinion
Stanley Christmas v. Lolita Sanders
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 12, 1985No. 83-3230PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this appeal from a civil judgment entered against her, defendant Lolita Sanders asks this court to grant her a new trial on the grounds that the district judge erroneously excluded certain evidence and that the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence. We affirm.
I
This case arises from a series of events that took place on the night of September 26, 1980. The facts are sharply disputed, but we will attempt to provide a fair summary of the different versions.
According to plaintiff, Stanley Christmas, on the night of September 26, he and a male…
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