The Grandoe Corp. v. Gander Mountain Co., No. 13-2706 (8th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseGrandoe filed suit against Gander Mountain after Gander Mountain reneged on its oral commitment to purchase $3.05 million worth of winter gloves from Grandoe. After the jury awarded judgment in favor of Grandoe, Gander Mountain moved for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial, claiming that two written documents rendered the oral agreement void. Grandoe filed an unopposed motion for prejudgment interest. The court concluded that the district court did not commit reversible error in declining to rule on the legal effect of the Vendor Buying Agreement because any error on the district court's part was invited by Gander Mountain; the district court did not err in concluding that the Resource Allowance Contract did not render evidence of the oral agreement inadmissible; a reasonable jury could have found that the parties orally agreed to the sale of $3.05 million worth of gloves and that no written contract voided that oral agreement; and the district court did not clearly err in awarding Grandoe prejudgment interest. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's denial of Gander Mountain's motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial, and affirmed its grant of prejudgment interest to Grandoe.
Court Description: Civil case - contracts. The district court did not err in submitting to the jury the issue of whether defendant had orally agreed to purchase $3.05 million worth of gloves from plaintiff as two written documents - the Vendor Buying Agreement and the Resource Allowance Contact - did not, as a matter of law, render the oral commitment void; a reasonable jury could, on the basis of the evidence presented, find the parties had entered into a valid oral agreement for sale of the gloves; no error in awarding plaintiff pre-judgment interest as plaintiff's damages were readily ascertainable.
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