FABIAN v. E. W. BLISS CO.

No. 77-1046.

582 F.2d 1257 (1978)

William FABIAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. E. W. BLISS COMPANY, a subsidiary of Gulf and Western Industries, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Ransom of Smith, Ransom & Gilstrap, Albuquerque, N.M. (William H. Carpenter, Albuquerque, N.M., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Mary C. Walters, Albuquerque, N.M. (Irving E. Moore, Albuquerque, N.M., on brief), for defendant-appellant.

Before McWILLIAMS, BREITENSTEIN and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity case involving personal injury, brought by plaintiff William Fabian (Fabian) against defendant E. W. Bliss Company (Bliss). A jury returned a verdict for Fabian in the amount of $80,000, from which Bliss now appeals. (A directed verdict was granted in favor of another defendant, Scovil Fluid Power, which is not involved in this appeal.)

The issues in this Court primarily concern the trial court's instructions to the...

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