Personal Injury Action Involving Allegedy Defective Rifle

In Katzenmeier v. Blackpowder Prods., Inc., No. 09-1146, a personal injury action arising out of an alleged defect in a muzzleloader rifle manufactured and distributed by defendants, the court affirmed judgment for defendants where 1) certain prior incidents of which plaintiff sought to introduce evidence were not “substantially similar” to plaintiff’s accident, and the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to admit the evidence; 2) defendant did not offer certain alleged hearsay testimony for the truth of what a proof house said, but rather to demonstrate the reasons for the company’s marking procedures; and 3) certain witnesses’ testimony was not so fundamentally unsupported that it could offer no assistance to the jury.

 

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  • Read the Eighth Circuit’s Decision in Katzenmeier v. Blackpowder Prods., Inc., No. 09-1146

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