BOWLING v. FOUNDERS TITLE CO.

Nos. 84-7311, 84-7312, 84-7470 and 84-7471.

773 F.2d 1175 (1985)

Umphrey H. BOWLING, Jr., Harold Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FOUNDERS TITLE COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant-Appellant. Bernard ZOLDESSY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FOUNDERS TITLE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant. Umphrey H. BOWLING, Jr.; Harold Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. J.R. BUDERUS; Buderus Family Trust, Defendants, Founders Title Company, Defendant-Appellant. Bernard ZOLDESSY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. J.R. BUDERUS, The J.R. Buderus Family Trust, Defendants, Founders Title Company, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Huffaker, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant-appellant.

H.A. Lloyd, Lloyd, Dinning, Boggs & Dinning, Demopolis, Ala., Frank W. Riggs, Wayne P. Turner, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before VANCE and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This is a consolidated action in which the plaintiffs, real estate brokers Umphrey Bowling and Harold Williams and landowner Bernard Zoldessy, sued the Founders Title Company of California seeking damages for fraud, breach of contract and civil RICO violations in certain land transactions. At trial, the jury found Founders liable to all three plaintiffs on the civil RICO counts, and to Bowling for common law fraud. We AFFIRM Bowling's civil...

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