Legal Opinion
Sharp v. Hylas Yachts, LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 22, 2017No. 16-1917PPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Following an eleven-day jury trial and verdict, the district court entered judgment against Hylas Yachts, LLC and in favor of plaintiffs Nelson Sharp and his LLC, Destiny Yachts, in the amount of $663,774 plus interest and costs, on account of numerous defects in a brand-new yacht that Hylas custom built and sold to plaintiffs. Both sides appeal. For the following reasons, neither side persuades us to upset the judgment.
I. Background
To frame the .principal issues raised on this appeal (Hylas’s challenges to the verdict and plaintiffs’ challenge to the judgment as a…
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