Fmc Finance Corporation v. Wayne Reed

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

In this Mississippi diversity action, FMC Finance Corporation (“Finance”) sued Wayne Reed to recover the outstanding principal and interest due on notes financing Reed’s purchase of seventeen cotton module builders from Finance’s parent, FMC Corporation (“FMC”). 1 Reed then filed a third party complaint against FMC seeking damages for breach of an alleged agreement by FMC to sell cotton module trailers in combination with the module builders. After reviewing the jury’s answer to a special interrogatory, the district court entered judgment in favor of Finance on the…