Mid Systems Inc. has been serving the Roanoke area with new & used office furniture sales, installation, office moves, and storage services since 2003.
Mid Systems Inc. has been serving the office furniture needs of the greater Roanoke area since 2003. We specialize in sales of new & used office furniture, installation of office systems, office furniture removal and disposal, office moves and warehouse storage. The area's only certified Amcase Modular Systems installers. http://www.amcase.com
Punitive damages have a twofold purpose. They're designed to punish a party whose conduct is especially egregious and to deter others from engaging in the same kind of wrongdoing. In patent versus mid-continent systems, the Seventh Circuit considered whether punitive damages were appropriate in a case involving a deliberate breach of contract. James Patton owned a truck stop in Burns Harbor, Indiana, and R. L. Hildebrand owned a truck stop in nearby New Buffalo, Michigan. In 1971, the two men signed a franchise agreement with Mid-Continent Systems, a credit card company. The agreement established a loosely defined territory within which only truck stops owned by Patton and Hildebrand would be capable of accepting Mid-Continent's credit cards. In 1974, Mid-Continent awarded a franchise to Truckomat, a competing truck stop within the men's territory. Over the next several years, Patton and Hildebrand repeatedly notified Mid-Continent that it was in breach of the franchise agreement, to no avail. Patton and Hildebrand sued Mid-Continent in Federal District Court alleging breach of contract. A jury found that Mid-Continent had breached the party's agreement and awarded both compensatory and punitive damages. Mid-Continent appealed to the Seventh Circuit.
