ORFIELD v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY

Civ. A. Nos. 3137, 3155.

415 F.Supp. 404 (1975)

Perry W. ORFIELD, Plaintiff, v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY, Defendant. Perry W. ORFIELD, Plaintiff, v. POWER EQUIPMENT COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

February 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Heller, Philadelphia, Pa. and Bernard E. Bernstein, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

N. R. Coleman, Jr., Greeneville, Tenn., Robert R. Campbell, George D. Montgomery, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

These are diversity actions, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a)(1), (c), for damages under product liability. They were consolidated for purposes of trial, bifurcated as to the respective issues of liability and damages, and proceeded initially to trial on the issue of liability only. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's proof as to liability, each defendant moved for a directed verdict, Rule 50(a), Federal...

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