Jones v. Robbins

STEELMAN, Judge.

Where the precise location of respondents’ properties and the location of a proposed cartway were not an issue before the jury, the trial court did not err in denying appellant’s motions for directed verdict or judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to give a proposed jury instruction pertaining to appellant’s assertion that petitioners intended to develop the property for residential purposes. The trial court erred in setting an appeal bond in this matter.

I. Factual and Procedural History

Petitioners are the owners of a…