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Parties Involved:
Deka Corporation
Appellee
Xtel Corporation
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

XTEL CORPORATION, an Oklahoma ) 

corporation, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

APR 3 0 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

) No. 90-6309 

v. ) 

) 

DEKA CORPORATION, a California ) 

corporation, ) 

) 

Defendant-Appellee. ) 

(D.C. No. CIV-87-2062-A) 

(W.D. Oklahoma) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Submitted on the Briefs: 

Before LOGAN, MOORE, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

This is an appeal from two orders of the district court 

denying post-judgment motions for prejudgment interest and 

attorney fees. We affirm. 

*This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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After reading the briefs and examining the record, we are 

persuaded the district court correctly held that plaintiffs were 

not entitled to prejudgment · interest because the amount in 

controversy was not certain nor capable of being made certain, nor 

was it due on a day certain. Okla. Stat. tit. 23, § 22; FidelityPhenix Fire Ins. Co. v. Board of Educ. of Town of Rosedale, 204 

P . 2d 982, 987 (Okla. 1949); Jesko v. American-First Title and 

Trust Co., 603 F.2d 815, 820 (10th Cir. 1979). We also agree that 

the action was for breach of a contract to sell a business; hence, 

it was not subject to the Oklahoma attorney fee statute. See R. 

V. I, tab. 166, D.C. Order, Aug. 9, 1990, denying attorney fees. 

AFFIRMED. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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