McCormack Ex Rel. McCormack v. Hankscraft Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment and from an order overruling objections to the taxation of costs including $33,000 in interest on a verdict. The issue is whether interest began to run on the date the verdict was rendered, April 20, 1964, or whether interest did not accrue until the verdict was reinstated by this court in November 1967.

This was a products liability action in which plaintiff recovered a verdict of $150,000. Upon defendant’s motion, the trial court granted judgment notwithstanding the verdict with a provision that if that part of its order was reversed it was also granting a…