Smith v. Custom Micro, Inc.

The issue in this civil case is- whether the Court of Appeals erred in summarily reversing the judgment of the district court and remanding the case for a new trial on the ground that the audio record of proceedings had been erased. We conclude that the Court of Appeals erred. We reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals, reinstate the appeal, and remand the case to that court for further proceedings.

This case began as a dispute over the kind of hard disk that defendant furnished in a computer it sold to plaintiff. Dissatisfied with his failure to obtain a resolution of the dispute,…