United States Fifth Circuit

In an action for breach of an oral contract to split commissions on a sale, the district court's order reducing the damages awarded to plaintiff by the jury is affirmed where plaintiff's attorney, in closing argument, limited the scope of plaintiff's claim by telling the jury to award damages solely for one category of the commissions at issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2010
• Decided 07/12/2010
• Published 07/13/2010

Judges

• Jerry E. Smith

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

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