Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, APLC v. Washington

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 4839

Syllabus

Directed verdict; Civ.R. 50(A)(4); quantum meruit; moot; alternate theory of liability; manifest weight of the evidence; jury verdict; remand; new trial on compensatory damages. The trial court did not err when it granted a directed verdict finding the corporate defendants-appellants liable under quantum meruit when, construing the evidence most strongly in favor of the defendants-appellants, demonstrated the only conclusion that could have been reached was that the plaintiff-appellee was entitled to recover its contingency fee under quantum meruit from the corporate defendants. A review of the evidence submitted at trial demonstrated the jury clearly lost its way when it entered its verdict of $8,500,000 in favor of the plaintiff-appellee and created such a manifest miscarriage of justice that judgment must be reversed and a new trial on compensatory damages ordered to determine the value of plaintiff-appellee's legal services rendered to the defendants-appellants.