Eugene R. Signorile, V, Quaker Oats Company

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

Defendant-appellant Quaker Oats Company appeals from a judgment awarding attorney’s fees to plaintiff-appellee Eugene Signorile after the dismissal of his action. Signorile sought damages for the misappropriation of a trade secret. The district court dismissed the action for lack of diversity. The only issue is whether the court properly ordered the defendant to pay plaintiff his attorney’s fees incurred during the pendency of the aborted lawsuit.

The plaintiff based federal court jurisdiction in an allegation that he was an Illinois resident and that the defendant was a…