Legal Opinion
John Haugh v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 22, 1991No. 86-1530PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal (long delayed by virtue of the defendant’s bankruptcy and the resulting automatic stay only recently lifted) from a judgment for the defendant entered upon a directed verdict in the second trial of a diversity personal-injury suit. The first trial ended in a jury verdict of $85,000 for the plaintiff, but the district judge granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial on the basis of an improper communication by the marshal to the jury during the jury deliberations. The evidence was somewhat different at the second trial and persuaded the judge to…
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