Bryant Motors, Inc. v. American States Insurance Companies

WALTERS, Chief Judge.

This dispute centers around a joint venture contract to assemble and deliver a school bus. We are asked to determine whether the trial court erred in granting American States’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and alternative motion for new trial. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.

The relevant facts are as follows. Bryant Motors, Inc. (Bryant), and North American Diesel, Inc., (Noram), together entered into a bid to deliver a school bus to the school district of St. Maries, Idaho. The parties’ bid provided that Bryant would supply a bus body in…