Court Opinion

ID: 9474932
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:12:43.131374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:24.743631
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WIDENER, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result and in the opinion with one exception.
I think that we need not, and should not, reach the question of whether the Virginia court would adopt assumption of the risk as a defense in a suit on implied warranty.
I say this because the jury was instructed on the known visible or obvious defense which the Virginia court has adopted, and the district court based its setting aside of the verdict on that theory as well as the theory of assumption of the risk.
I think there was sufficient evidence to submit the case to the jury on the correct theory, and concur with the panel that the verdict should not have been set aside.