Nelson v. C & C PLYWOOD CORP.

(sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE HASWELL) delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The defendant, C & C Plywood Corp., a Montana corporation, appeals from a jury verdict of $8,985 and from the denial by the trial-court of defendant’s several motions, the last of which are to set aside the verdict and judgment and order judgment in accordance with defendant’s motion for directed verdict and for new trial.

The plaintiffs, John A. Nelson and Hazel J. Nelson, an elderly couple, in 1948 purchased a small farm in the Evergreen district near Kalispell, a rural residential area of small tracts of land.…