Heller Financial, Inc. v. Christopher La Salle & Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE WHITE

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Christopher La Salle and Company appeals a default judgment entered in favor of plaintiff Heller Financial, Inc. Heller had engaged La Salle as a procurer of shipping services: La Salle combined the shipping of several customers to qualify for carriers’ bulk shipping rates and took as a commission a percentage of the customers’ savings. Heller’s complaint, filed on October 16, 1985, alleged that it had sent approximately $18,600 to La Salle to be forwarded to a shipper, Federal Express, as payment of Heller’s invoices, but…