Snow v. Baldwin

MADDOX, Justice.

Defendant L. Lamar Snow appeals from a judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs L.C. Baldwin and Kathleen P. Baldwin in the amount of $72,110.88, alleging that the trial court committed numerous errors during the trial of this case. We agree that the trial court erred and reverse.

In January 1975, L.C. Baldwin purchased Bidgood Stationery Corporation (“Bid-good”), expecting to sell the business when he had improved it financially. On December 24, 1979, Baldwin sold the business to Snow, Clyde Reasonover, George Reynolds Brabner, and Richard Ford. Snow,…