Court Opinion

ID: 9534612
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:41:22.328854+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:47.810957
License: Public Domain

CARDINE, Justice,
dissenting.
I would reverse the judgment not withstanding the verdict (JNOV). I have no problem with the bank examining the borrower’s finances, requiring financial statements and disclosures. But when the bank becomes involved in the ranch operation with advice and requirements concerning numbers and kinds of livestock to run, leasing pasture, obtaining a long-term loan from the Farm Loan Board, and the sale of *612livestock, the bank may then become a participant in the operation of the ranch and incur obligations and duties that would not otherwise exist. I acknowledge that the facts concerning what occurred between these parties was hotly disputed— but resolution of these disputed facts was for the jury.
Finally, the trial court stated that if the JNOV were not appropriate, it would have granted a new trial upon the question of damages. That, for me, is a preferable result in this case. Consequently, I dissent.