Kantel Communications, Inc. v. Casey

SPINDEN, Judge.

When Best Serve, Inc., persuaded the Cass County sheriff to let it install a telephone system in the county jail, competitor Kantel Communications, Inc., sued Best Serve, Kan-tel’s former sales manager, James Hansen, and Kantel’s former salesman, Clarence Casey, for tortiously interfering with Kantel’s business expectation. Kantel accused Best Serve of collaborating with Hansen and Casey to divert the Cass County business away from Kantel to Best Serve.

A jury found for Kantel and awarded it $300,000 in actual damages. It assessed $65,000 in punitive damages: $10,000 against…