Legal Opinion
Grand Laboratories, Inc. v. Midcon Labs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 17, 1994No. Nos. 93-3165, 94-1573PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
Defendants Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. (KCSI) and its subsidiary Mideon Labs, Inc. (Mideon) appeal the district court’s judgment awarding plaintiff Grand Laboratories, Inc. (Grand) compensatory and punitive damages in this diversity case. A jury found that Mideon was liable as a successor corporation for a default judgment of $1,785,380 entered for Grand and against Mid-Continent Biological Laboratories, Inc. in 1986, that KCSI was liable for the same amount under a “piercing the corporate veil” theory, and that KCSI was liable for $6,400,-000 in punitive…
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