Judge Skinner’s compound jury questions and post-trial rulings foreclosed Beatrice’s appeal

Evidence

He had decreed that, based on the evidence, groundwater from the fifteen acres had never reached the Woburn wells. Because of the compound nature of the questions the judge had posed to the jury, this specific question had never been answered. Skinner took it upon himself to answer it, and in doing so he made any appeal on the Beatrice verdict much more difficult. — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2877

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2877