Legal Opinion
Robert L. Preston v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 16, 1979No. 78-1873PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Robert L. Preston and 67 other farmers and estates of deceased farmers have sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C. § 1346(b)) for damages, claiming that they lost $1,910,057.42 1 in their dealings with Grain Finance Company, Inc. (Grain Finance) and Farmers Grain Exchange, Inc. (FGX) by reason of negligent and wrongful actions of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). As an alternative to damages, plaintiffs sought an accounting.
Defendant filed…
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