Dean v. Weisbrod

Gordon L. McRae, Justice. *

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying defendants’ alternative motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial and from the judgment entered against defendant Forrest G. Weisbrod in favor of plaintiff William E. Dean, Jr., pursuant to the special verdict returned by a jury. Although the parties’ wives were also nominally parties, we shall refer to Dean as plaintiff and to Weisbrod as defendant.

In denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, the trial court determined that there was sufficient…