Bunge Corp. v. Valley Line Supply & Equipment Co.

MORGAN, Presiding Judge.

A jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $15,500 for deterioration in value of a barge load of corn while it was being transported from Savage, Minnesota, to Destrehan, Louisiana, by defendant. The trial court denied defendant’s post-trial Motion for Judgment In Accordance With Motions For A Directed Verdict, but sustained defendant’s Motion For A New Trial because of the giving of instructions numbered 2 and 6. Plaintiff has appealed.

Factually, it appears that plaintiff had purchased approximately 100,000 bushels of corn in Minnesota, which…