Melvin E. Green and John W. Saunders, III v. Century 21, Briarcrest Realty, Inc., Martin Fewlas, Donna Fewlas, Ruth Ann Bryce and Helen Holman

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Defendants in this case appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs in a civil rights action alleging racial discrimination in the sale of real estate. This case involves a jury award totalling $42,200 in compensatory and punitive damages against a real estate firm, two of its sales agents and the sellers. The appellees in the case are plaintiffs Green and Saunders, two single black men who had offered to purchase the somewhat dilapidated four-unit apartment in a white neighborhood in Toledo.

I. FACTS

It is clear that at one time offers on the…