Legal Opinion
Price v. Highland Community Bank
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 21, 1989No. 87 C 6259PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
POSNER, Circuit Judge (sitting by designation).
I have before me the defendants’ post-trial motions in this fraud and breach of contract case that pitted Marjorie B. Price against Highland Community Bank and its president, George R. Brokemond. At the end of a four-day trial in June (at which I presided by designation of the chief judge of the circuit to help the district court with its heavy caseload), the jury found in favor of Price and directed the defendants to pay her $25,000 in compensatory damages for the fraud and the breach of contract and $150,000 in punitive damages for the…
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