Legal Opinion
Jacques Moreau v. Egon Oppenheim v. Virginia H. Zimmerman, Intervenor-Appellee. Alduro-Raynes Arabians, Inc. v. Jacques Moreau
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1981No. 81-2159, 81-2279PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
This case turns on the construction of a series of transactions between the Oppenheims, American owners of a horse-breeding operation in Texas, and the Moreaus, French citizens formerly engaged in the breeding of pureblood Arabian horses in southern France. The central question at trial was whether the Moreaus had been the victims of a scheme involving malicious overreaching or whether they had simply backed out of a contract that had gone sour. As might be expected, the parties’ descriptions, both at trial and on appeal, of the terms of the agreements at issue vary…
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