Blivas & Page, Inc. v. Klein

This appeal is from judgment entered on a jury verdict of $30,000 actual damages and $15,000 punitive damages against both defendants Klein and Kay. The action was in two counts, but the jury’s verdict was based on Count II only, which alleged breach of an oral agreement by defendant Klein to retain plaintiffs’ architectural firm on a certain housing project in Rockford, wrongful inducement of that breach by defendant Kay, and conspiracy between defendants to accomplish those aims.

The project in question was one of the Federal Housing Administration’s “221-D-3” projects for providing low rent…