Allen v. and Arlene S. McInarnay v. Peggy T. and Frank Hall

Justice Ketchum :

*921 When an error occurs during a trial, a basic rule of trial practice is that a party must promptly lodge an objection to the error. By objecting, the party alerts the opposing party and the judge of the error so it may be corrected before the jury renders a verdict. A party's failure to object usually waives the right to complain about the error after the trial.

The plaintiff in this appeal proved she had a written easement to cross the defendants' land, but the defendants countered with evidence that the plaintiff had legally abandoned the written easement through decades of…