Marvel Brute Steel Building v. Bass

Defendants appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in Yellowstone County awarding $7,000 in damages to the plaintiffs for fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of warranty in connection with the sale of a tractor. The plaintiffs, in addition to moving to dismiss this appeal as being untimely filed, have filed a cross-appeal. We determine that the defendants’ appeal was not timely filed, and therefore, that the appeal must be dismissed. Likewise, because the plaintiffs’ cross-appeal is subject to the same impediment, it, too, is dismissed.

Just before the close of trial on April 13,…