Legal Opinion
Sidney Clark and Julia Clark v. Universal Builders, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 16, 1974No. 72-1655PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from a grant of a directed verdict for defendants at the close of the plaintiffs’ case in chief. Plaintiffs are a class of black citizens who purchased newly constructed houses in Chicago from defendants under land installment contracts during the period from 1958 to 1968. Defendants include the building contractor of the houses and the various land companies through which the houses were sold to plaintiffs. 1 In the district court plaintiffs claimed that as a result of intense racial discrimination in Chicago and its, metropolitan area there existed at all…
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