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MESSER v. E.F. HUTTON & CO.

No. 86-3602.

833 F.2d 909 (1987)

W. Floyd MESSER, Sr., individually, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.F. HUTTON & CO., a Delaware corporation, Raphael M. Kelly, individually, Henry Herschaft, individually, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. August Quesada, Jr., Wildt, Quesada & Walker, Jacksonville, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Nicholas V. Pulignana, Jr., Mattox S. Hair, Delbridge L. Gibbs, Mary C. Wood, Marks, Gray, Conroy & Gibbs, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

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

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a district court order granting defendant-appellee E.F. Hutton's motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The order set aside a large part of the jury's award of both compensatory and punitive damages resulting from two unauthorized trades in plaintiff-appellant Floyd Messer's brokerage account. Messer contests the district court's determinations on both liability and damages and its denial of attorneys' fees...

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