United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit for breach of an oral contract, denial of defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law is reversed where plaintiff presented no evidence at trial showing that a third party had actual authority to bind defendant into a contract.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/08/2004
• Decided 02/14/2005
• Published 02/14/2005

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Alan H. Goldstein, Ice Miller, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Steven M. Edwards (argued), Hogan & Hartson, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant and Plaintiff-Appellant., Lou Mrachek (argued), Alan B. Rose, Page Mrachek Fitzgergald & Rose, West Palm Beach, FL, for Defendant-Appellant and Defendant-Appellee.