Zeilenga v. Stelle Industries, Inc.

Fraud case.

Jury trial.

Verdict for plaintiff.

Judgment n.o.v.

We affirm.

Craig Zeilenga brought suit against Stelle Industries, Inc. and The Stelle Group alleging fraud and the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the amount of *10,000 plus *25,000 punitive damages. The trial judge, however, granted defendants’ motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

The facts are these:

The Stelle Group was founded by Richard Kieninger in 1963 and organized as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation. It is an organization bound together by a philosophy espoused in a book entitled The Ultimate Frontier…