Legal Opinion
Fabrica Italiana Lavorazione Materie Organiche, S. A. S. v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 1982No. 81-5346PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
Kaiser Aluminum appeals from a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee Fabri-ca Italiana Lavorazione Materie Organiche, S.A.S. (FILMO) in this diversity action for breach of contract. Kaiser alleges that the trial court erred in striking one of Kaiser’s defenses, in failing to construe the contract as a matter of law, in not directing a verdict for Kaiser, and in excluding the testimony of one of Kaiser’s expert witnesses. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
I. Background
In September 1979, FILMO and Kaiser Aluminum reached an agreement by telephone for Kaiser to…
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