Bacon & Bacon Manufacturing Co. v. Bonsey Partners

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, as well as their corporation, Bacon & Bacon Manufacturing Co., Inc. (the Bacons), appeal a judgment in favor of B & B Manufacturing, Inc., Bonsey Partners, and various members of the Bonsey family (the Bonseys). We reverse and remand the judgment entered after a nonjury trial because the trial court relied upon the wrong burden of proof. Additionally, the trial court claimed to have been troubled by a stacking of inferences within the evidence. It relied upon the law relating to the granting of a directed verdict in a case that is tried by a jury. But…