Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co.

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• holding that attack on adverse jury finding on which appellant had burden of proof should be reviewed as assertion that appellant had established its affirmative defense “as a matter of law.”
• holding that because there was evidence the defendant's interference in directing a contractor to dismiss an employee was not done in the bona fide exercise of the defendant's rights, the defendant failed to establish its justification defense as a matter of law
• holding that because there was evidence the defendant’s interference in directing a contractor to dismiss an employee was not done in the bona fide exercise of the defendant’s rights, the defendant failed to establish its justification defense as a matter of law
• concluding privilege of legal justification or excuse in interference of contractual relations is affirmative defense and thus defendant has burden of proof
• holding that affirmative defense of legal justification requires a showing that (1) inducement of the breach occurred in the bona fide exercise of the actor’s own rights, or (2) that the actor had an equal or superior right in the subject matter when compared to that of the plaintiff
• concluding privilege of legal justification or excuse in interference of contractual relations is affirmative defense and thus defendant has burden of proof

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