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- Title: Debenedetto v. Goodyear Tire a Rubber Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Release Date : January 16, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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Deborah Samluck Drier and Melissa E. DeBenedetto (by her guardian ad Litem, Frances DeBenedetto) appeal from the jury verdict in favor of the defendant Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Goodyear) in these consolidated product liability cases. Appellants assert that trial court committed three reversible errors in the conduct of the trial: (1) seating an eight-member jury, with seven of those jurors deliberating; 2) allowing the jurors to question witnesses during the trial; and (3) refusing to allow publication of certain interrogatories and answers by the defendant. Appellants further claim that they were deprived of a fair trial by the defendants failure to produce a specified document during discovery and by statements made by defense counsel during closing argument. Despite the reservations stated herein about the practice of allowing questions by jurors, we find no reversible error.