1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.2d
  4. 875 F.2d
  5. 875 F.2d 1271 (1989)
 

ASHLAND OIL, INC. v. ARNETT

Nos. 87-2139, 87-2140 and 87-2198.

875 F.2d 1271 (1989)

ASHLAND OIL, INC., a Kentucky corporation, Bell Fuels, Inc., a Nevada corporation, Jasper County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc., an Indiana corporation, Marathon Petroleum Company, an Ohio corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Toy Rex ARNETT, Jr., Thomas R. Arnett, and Donald G. Richards, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, and Rena Arnett, Super Payless Gas, Inc., Charles Arnett, Norma Arnett, William Shireman, Steel City Gas Stop, Inc., Carson Truck Plaza, Inc., Kenneth Ford, Carson Petroleum Company, Interstate Truck Plazas of America, Inc., and Richards, Isenberg & Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Brad A. Levin, Laser, Schostok, Kolman and Frank, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants/cross-appellees.

Karen L. Hughes, Lucas Holcomb & Medrea, Merrillville, Ind., Alan S. Brown, Locke Reynolds Boyd & Weisell, Indianapolis, Ind., Roger J. McFadden and Thomas J. Dillon, Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner, Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case involves an appeal and cross-appeals from a judgment entered following a jury trial. The plaintiffs, four oil suppliers, alleged that Toy and Thomas Arnett orchestrated two episodes of fraud, executed through a petroleum wholesale corporation owned by them, named Arnett Oil, Inc. According to the plaintiffs, the two Arnetts, in league with Arnett Oil's accountant, Donald G. Richards, induced three of the plaintiffs to extend...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases