United States Tenth Circuit

Where the jury verdict asked whether defendant was negligent and whether negligence caused plaintiff's injury, an unanimous verdict that there was no causation is not inconsistent with failure to answer question of whether defendant was negligent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2001
• Published 08/16/2001

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, HENRY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel R. Swiss (Turner W. Branch, Margaret Moses Branch, and James P. Lyle, with him on the briefs), The Branch Law Firm, Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alice Tomlinson Lorenz (Jennifer L. Stone, with her on the brief), Miller, Stratvert & Torgerson, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellee.