Legal Opinion
C.L. Maddox, Inc. v. Benham Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 3, 1996No. 95-1824, 95-1992PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
In this complicated breach of contract action in which the jury awarded $5 million to C.L. Maddox, Inc. (Maddox), The Benham Group, Inc. (Benham) appeals several rulings made by the district court during trial. Maddox cross-appeals the district court’s $1,467,000 reduction in the damages award to Maddox. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. BACKGROUND
The dispute between the parties has its origins in the extensive and expensive remodeling of a coal processing system at an electrical power plant in Joppa, Illinois. The owner of the plant, Electric Energy, Inc. (EEI),…
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