R-Way Furniture Company v. Powers Interiors, Inc.

SMITH, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from the action of the trial court in sustaining defendant’s motion for new trial upon the basis that plaintiff’s verdict-directing instruction in a contract case was erroneous. The jury found for plaintiff in the amount of $14,528.38. Plaintiff contends here that the court initially erred in not directing a verdict for plaintiff. We will first examine this contention.

Since the facts are somewhat complicated a brief statement of the gist of the controversy may be helpful. Plaintiff supplied a quotation to defendant for furniture, which quotation formed…