Rieman v. Joubert

SIMONETT, Justice.

This appeal illustrates the importance of serving a notice of filing of a trial court decision in post-trial motion practice. On the facts of this case, we hold that defendant waived service of notice of filing and, therefore, his motion for a new trial brought more than 15 days after his waiver was untimely.

Plaintiff-respondent William C. Rieman, Jr., sued defendant-appellant Jarrel D. Jou-bert for breach of an oral contract in Hen-nepin County Municipal Court. After a bench trial, the trial court decided in plaintiffs favor and, on August 30, 1983, filed its findings of…