Bartlett v. Hantover

— The defendants are the owners of a motel. They appeal a judgment based upon a jury award to their employee for gunshot wounds inflicted while he was at work.

The issues raised by the appeal concern the admissibility of evidence that safeguards were installed after the shooting, the failure to give an instruction limiting the use of such evidence, the giving of an instruction on damages that included lost earning capacity as an element, the claimed failure to prove it was negligent not to foresee the criminal act, and the failure to grant a judgment n.o.v. or a new trial on the ground that…