Harris v. Olson

NEUMAN, Justice.

Plaintiff Charles Harris sought to accept a confession of judgment after a jury returned a verdict in a lesser amount. The district court rejected Harris’s tender as untimely. On Harris’s challenge to the court’s ruling, we affirm.

Harris sued defendant Gregory Olson for damages sustained in an automobile collision. Trial was scheduled for September 11, 1995. Five days before trial, Olson mailed Harris a confession of judgment in the amount of $12,-500. Harris did not respond. The case proceeded to trial and, on September 13, 1995, the jury returned a verdict for Harris in the…