Court Opinion

ID: 9773222
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:40:16.445191+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:51.112408
License: Public Domain

KOCH, Judge,
concurring.
This is an appeal by a stone company from the verdict of a Dickson County jury awarding homeowners $30,000 for the damage to their house caused by blasting at the stone company’s quarry between 1986 and 1987. The stone company now takes issue with the admission of expert evidence concerning the cause of damage and evidence of the similar damage to other property owners’ houses. It also challenges the jury instructions, the evidentiary foundation for the verdict, and the trial court’s refusal to remit the damages.
Under the facts of this case, I concur with the majority’s conclusion that the challenged evidence was admissible and that the record contains material evidence to support the jury’s verdict. In addition, my own review of the record satisfies me that the jury instructions fairly embodied the legal and factual issues involved in the case and that the trial court properly declined to grant the stone company’s request for a remittitur.