Field v. Palmer

TERNUS, Justice.

The plaintiffs challenge the trial court’s posttrial ruling setting aside a jury verdict in plaintiffs’ favor on a negligent misrepresentation theory, and granting a new trial to the individual defendants on the plaintiffs’ contract claim. The plaintiffs claim the ground upon which the court based its decision to set aside the negligent misrepresentation verdict was raised for the first time in the defendants’ posttrial motion. Therefore, the plaintiffs argue, this issue was not asserted in a timely manner and cannot serve as a basis for this court to affirm the district…