Cannon Builders, Inc. v. Rice

PERRY, Judge.

In this case, we are asked to review awards to two separate plaintiffs against the same defendants following a consolidated trial. We must decide whether the district court properly admitted evidence of a liquidated damages clause; whether the attorney for defendants should have been allowed to testify; and whether the district court properly denied the defendants’ motions for directed verdict. We affirm the judgment entered in favor of Cannon Builders, Inc., but reverse the judgment entered in favor of Crooks Industries, Inc.

FACTS AND PROCEDURE

In May of 1989, Cannon Builders,…