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HAUGH v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP.

No. 86-1530.

949 F.2d 914 (1991)

John HAUGH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Ring, Margaret A. McGuire (argued), Ring & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Terrence L. Smith, Lawrence M. Hansen (argued), Smith & Debonis, East Chicago, Ind., for defendant-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, POSNER, Circuit Judge, and MORAN, Chief Judge.

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...

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