With a new year and a new judge to hear their motions for new trial, Jackson Walker, a partner in its Fort Worth office and two other defendants are hoping to overturn a $3.8 million verdict a Tarrant County jury issued after finding they were part of a civil conspiracy to commit fraud in a complicated trust case.
Late last year, a jury in Virginia O. Kinsel, et al. v. Jane O. Lindsey, et al. found that Jackson Walker partner M. Keith Branyon along with defendants Jane O. Lindsey and Robert N. Oliver also committed statutory fraud and tortious interference with the inheritance rights of several plaintiffs resulting from the sale of a ranch in South Texas.
