Legal Opinion
Abels v. Farmers Commodities Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2001No. 00-1946NI, 00-2045NIPublishedCited by 188 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
The District Court dismissed this case for failure to state a claim. It held, first, that a plaintiff seeking to hold a principal liable for an agent’s fraud must plead not only fraud but also agency with particularity pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b). In the District Court’s view, the plaintiffs failed to meet that heightened standard in pleading a principal-agent relationship between the Farmers’ Commodities Corporation and Henry May-land, who is alleged to have induced many of the plaintiffs to enter into the “hedge-to-arrive” (HTA)…
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