Legal Opinion
Tatum C. Singletary v. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 16, 1993No. 93-1849PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
From the wreck of the Penn Square Bank more than a decade ago, which nearly dragged the Continental Illinois National Bank down with it, still another ease has found its way to this court, a diversity suit by Tatum Singletary and members of his family against Continental and others, charging fraud and other misconduct. The suit was filed in 1989, and dismissed, on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, as barred by the statute of limitations.
We consider at the outset a jurisdictional glitch unremarked by the parties and the district judge. (Diversity suits are full…
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