Court Opinion

ID: 9450208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:38:24.857203+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:11.650168
License: Public Domain

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
In the main, I agree with the majority opinion. But I dissent from the last paragraph in which my colleagues conclude —erroneously, I think — to remand for the purpose of giving the plaintiff an opportunity to present additional evidence on proximate cause. They think the trial court’s ruling that there was sufficient evidence to form a jury question as to proximate cause, now held to have been incorrect, may have led the plaintiff to refrain from offering further evidence on that issue.
This seems to me to be an inadequate reason for ordering a remand. Regardless of the trial court’s ruling that there was sufficient evidence already in the record to raise a jury question as to proximate cause, I think it was incumbent on the plaintiff to make that evidence stronger if he could, and to introduce all the proof of proximate cause which was available. Presumably he did so, and, therefore, I am not in favor of giving him another bite at the cherry. I think we should not remand but reverse outright.