Saskatchewan Wheat Pool is appealing a court judgment requiring it to pay $120,000 in damages to a Melville, Sask., farmer.
The pool filed its appeal in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Sept. 11.
In August, a Court of Queen’s Bench judge ruled in favour of Morris Feduk in a complex dispute with the pool over grain deliveries and payments in 1993 and 1994.
In addition to more than $90,000 in damages related to grain deliveries and sales of SWP shares, the judge took the unusual step of ordering the pool to pay Feduk $30,000 in punitive damages for its “oppressive and high-handed” actions.
The judgment also ordered Feduk to pay the pool $19,320 for an unfilled cash call contract to deliver canola.
In its appeal, the pool says trial judge Ellen Gunn erred in her conclusions as to the facts of the case, erred in her assessment of damages and erred in her decision to award punitive damages.
It asks that the money awarded to Feduk be set aside and that instead damages be awarded to the pool.
