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EVANSTON BANK v. CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC.

No. 83 C 2980.

623 F.Supp. 1014 (1985)

The EVANSTON BANK, Plaintiff, v. CONTICOMMODITY SERVICES, INC., and Ted Thomas, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

December 10, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray G. Rezner, Gerald M. Miller, W. Scott Porterfield, Fishman, Merrick & Perlman, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Geraldine M. Alexis, William J. Nissen, Thomas K. Cauley, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendant ContiCommodity Services, Inc.

James R. Streicker, Cotsirilos & Crowley, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Ted Thomas.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

In late May of 1982 the board of directors of the Evanston Bank discovered that the bank had lost over $1,200,000 in about one year of trading in commodities, while paying over $270,000 in commissions. The bank now brings this action for commodities fraud against ContiCommodity Services, Inc. (Conti), the futures commission merchant through which it traded in commodity futures, and Ted Thomas, the broker who handled...

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