Legal Opinion
E.F. Hutton & Company, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Roger Arnebergh, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 23, 1986No. 83-6195/6222PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge.
These appeals stem from a sharply contested dispute, involving silver futures contracts, between a broker, E.F. Hutton & Co., Inc. (“Hutton”), and one of its customers, Roger Arnebergh. The jury rendered a verdict awarding damages to both sides. However, because of a lack of clarity in the verdict forms, the verdict was ambiguous and each side could interpret it as a net victory. That is what happened. Unfortunately, the ambiguity did not become apparent to the district court until several weeks after it had polled and discharged the jury.
How this confusion arose is…
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