Dudley v. Anderson

I respectfully dissent. The defendant, Raymond C. Dudley, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in his favor, *1161arguing that the trial court erred in denying his motion to set aside the judgment, or, in the alternative, for a new trial based on the trial court’s reduction of the jury’s award.

In September 1997, Tom Anderson entered into an agreement with Oscar Booker to purchase all the timber from a tract of land in Tunnel Springs, which Booker allegedly owned. Booker escorted Anderson to the property and showed him where the boundary lines were located. Relying on Booker’s claim of…