Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 1992No. Nos. 91-1458, 91-1592PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.
For nearly eighteen months Hudson T. Harrison, an Illinois resident, sent his and his company’s money to a Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (“Dean Witter”) account executive and vice president, John G. Kenning, in Boca Raton, Florida, for investment in low-risk municipal bonds. Both Kenning and his assistant, John M. Carpenter, offered Harrison an opportunity he could not resist: If he sent money to them personally, they would place it in Carpenter’s personal, employee account at Dean Witter and then invest it in a specially available, municipal-bond fund.…
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