Legal Opinion
Transcraft, Inc. v. Galvin, Stalmack, Kirschner & Clark
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 1994No. Nos. 93-3684, 94-2717PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The appeals in this diversity suit for legal malpractice raise a variety of issues, mainly but not only of causation and of computation of damages. The principal plaintiff, Trans-craft Corporation, is a manufacturer of flatbed truck trailers. In 1985 a man named Weekley was driving a semitractor hauling a loaded Transcraft trailer. His wife was in the cab. While Weekley was attempting to exit from an interstate highway, the rig left *815the road and turned over. Weekley’s head was injured in the accident. His wife broke a couple of vertebrae in her neck, but apparently her…
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