221567P.pdf   03/23/2023  Lowell Lundstrom, Jr.  v.  Watts Guerra LLP
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1567
                          and No:  22-1579
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Northern   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Contracts. A reasonable jury could find that defendant was 
   bound on an ostensible agency theory by its litigation partner's promise 
   to pay plaintiff $10,000 a month for the term of months for his work in 
   signing up clients; similarly, the jury could also find that defendant was 
   bound by the litigation partner's promise, as apparent agent, to pay 
   plaintiff $50,000 for a new truck to accomplish his work on defendant's 
   behalf; the jury did not err in finding a third promise to pay plaintiff a 
   $3.4 million non-discretionary bonus was not included in the oral contract 
   between plaintiff and the litigation partner; claim that the award was 
   inadequate rejected as there was an obvious basis for the compensatory 
   damage award.