Nms Industries, Inc., D/B/A J. A. Olson Company v. Premium Corporation of America, Inc., Gold Crown Stamp Company, Inc.

In the second appeal of this diversity case, we again find the defendant-principal attempting to disavow the acts of its agent for which two juries have found it to be liable. In the previous appeal of the case, 1 we reversed a jury verdict for the supplier, finding the District Court’s instructions on the question of ratification by the principal of the acts of the agent were erroneous. The jury, having again determined that the principal was the author of its own dilemma, rendered a verdict for the supplier, apparently finding that the principal had cloaked the agent with the convincing…