Bergmann v. Insurance Company of North America

The trial judge failed to issue an opinion setting forth the rationale upon which he changed the jury’s verdict, and we are thus deprived of any insight the trial judge might have gathered in making his determination that the evidence did not support the verdict. The rule is clear that, if there is any credible evidence which under any reasonable view fairly admits of inferences which support the jury’s verdict, the verdict must be sustained, and neither the trial court nor this court may tamper with it. Doern v. Crawford (1967), 36 Wis. 2d 470, 476, 153 N. W. 2d 581; Rodenkirch v. Johnson…