Patterson v. Reid

How courts have described this case

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• holding a party may not use a post-trial motion to raise an issue that could have been raised at trial
• holding a party cannot raise an issue by way of a Rule 59(e) motion which may have been raised at trial
• explaining an issue a party raises for the first time in a petition for rehearing but could have raised before is not preserved
• stating, “[a] party cannot for the first time raise an issue by way of a Rule 59(e) motion which could have been raised at trial”
• finding the trial court's grant of a new trial nisi additur was not an abuse of discretion when jury awarded $500.54 in actual damages but plaintiff incurred $6,339.40 in medical expenses
• \A party cannot for the first time raise an issue by way of a Rule 59(e) motion which could have been raised at trial.\

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