Mathis v. Hargrove

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to review one argument on appeal because no authority for the position was cited
• refusing to review one argument on appeal because no authority for the position was cited
• motion court has discretion to deny motion for summary judgment even when all technical requirements are met by movant
• “The proper standard in a civil action . . . is the ‘preponderance of the evidence’ standard.”
• “We begin by accepting appellants’ premise that the circuit court’s reservation of its ruling on the motion for summary judgment effectively operated to deny the motion.”
• real estate broker did not cite authority for its argument that the contracting broker was an independent contractor, and thus, the argument would not be reviewed on appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).