Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Anderson

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

An estate appeals the denial of its post-trial motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial. It assigns as error the court’s denial of its request to amend its pleadings and the court’s refusal to give the jury the estate’s proposed instructions and special verdict form. We affirm.

FACTS

This action has a complex procedural history but essentially narrows in this appeal to a dispute between Robert Fletcher’s estate and Marlys Albrecht, to whom Fletcher was engaged to be married and to whom he purportedly transferred, to repay indebtedness, various…