Michael S. Thompson, Counter-Plaintiff-Appellant v. Doane Pet Care Co. Greg Dorin, Counter-Defendants-Appellees

OPINION

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Although this case began as a diversity case for specific performance brought by Doane Pet Care Co., this is now a case for an accounting in which the parties sought, and the trial court granted, a jury trial as to the value of Michael Thompson’s interest in a company in which he had a 25% interest. In a series of rulings, the District Court held inadmissible all of the testimony of Thompson’s accounting expert and then dismissed his case for lack of admissible accounting evidence. We regard these evidentiary rulings as clear error under an abuse of discretion…