Mann Brothers Logging, Inc. v. Potlatch Corporation

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Potlatch Corporation (Potlatch) appeals from a jury verdict awarding Mann Brothers Logging, Inc. (Mann Brothers) $240,000 for breach of an oral contract. Potlatch challenges the district court’s jury instructions concerning the elements of contract formation and whether the contract could be for a reasonable duration; the sufficiency of the evidence as it relates to whether there was an oral contract; and the jury’s damage award. We affirm.

I

At trial the parties presented the following evidence: On October 1, 1991, Potlatch’s woodlands manager for Arkansas, Dr. Bill Pope,…