UNITED BROADCASTING CO., INC. v. ARMES

No. 73-3824.

506 F.2d 766 (1975)

UNITED BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., U. B. C. Sales, Inc., and their officers and Richard Eaton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jay J. ARMES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Hulse, Stephen B. Tatem, Jr., El Paso, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Marshall I. Yaker, H. Tati Santiesteban, El Paso, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEWIN, GOLDBERG and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

In this Texas diversity case we must interpret a series of oral and written contracts for personal services undertaken and performed in the context of a most extraordinary set of facts. Plaintiff Richard Eaton and two corporations of which he is president appeal from a judgment for $80,000, plus court costs, entered on a jury verdict in favor of defendant and counterclaimant Jay Armes. We affirm.

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