Dopheide v. Schoeppner

LeGRAND, Justice.

Plaintiff brought this action for damages following defendant’s alleged breach of an oral farm lease. Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict of $2900.00 for plaintiff, which was reduced to $2100.00 by the trial court as a condition for overruling defendant’s motion for new trial.

This remittitur was accepted by plaintiff and is not an issue here. We therefore disregard it in our consideration of the case.

Although defendant charges numerous errors as grounds for a new trial, we find his principal complaints fall into three categories:(1) That there was no evidence of anyj oral…