321 U.S. 29 (1944) Cited 805 times 1 Legal Analyses
In Tennant v. Peoria P. U. R. Co., 321 U.S. 29, one of the leading cases, the Court granted certiorari "because of important problems as to petitioner's right to a jury determination of the issue of causation."
Holding that in the consumer protection context, should the same course of conduct give rise to plaintiffs' breach of contract claim and plaintiffs claims under a consumer protection statute, plaintiffs may recover damages either for the breach of contract, or for violation of the statute, butt not for both
Holding that the question of ratification of employee's alleged harassment should be submitted to a jury when the defendant continued to employ the offending employee, declined to intervene to prevent further offensive behavior towards the plaintiff, and ultimately terminated the plaintiff from employment
Recognizing that, where courts have tended to remand in light of new factual developments, it has been in the context of injunctive relief scenarios or other prospective relief, "not attempts to revise jury verdicts"