Farmers Cooperative El. Co. of Revillo v. Johnson

WINANS, Justice.

A jury in circuit court found the defendant Evan Lee Johnson, a/k/a Steve Johnson, liable to the plaintiff elevator company for more than fourteen thousand dollars. Defendant who represented himself at trial, failed to plead specifically the statute of frauds and made no objections to the jury instructions before the close of trial. He now contends that the statute of frauds is a bar to action, that he pled it sufficiently and that a jury instruction was improper and substantially prejudiced his case. Having considered at length all issues raised by the defendant on *38appeal we…