Legal Opinion
The Gates Rubber Company, a Corporation v. Usm Corporation, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 12, 1975No. 73-1325PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEVENS, Circuit Judge.
The principal question presented by this diversity case is whether to follow a line of Illinois appellate court decisions which are directly in point, or to treat three recent Illinois Supreme Court decisions as presaging a different result because they have eroded the basic rule on which the appellate court decisions rested.
Defendant pleads the Illinois five-year statute of limitations 1 as a bar to plaintiff’s claim for damages resulting from the failure of a lead extrusion press installed in plaintiff’s Galesburg plant in early 1964. The failure occurred on July 23,…
2Cases cited82 opinions
- West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc.California Supreme Court · 1963
- Ultramares Corp. v. ToucheNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
- Lehman Brothers v. ScheinSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Suvada v. White Motor Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1965
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3Cited by91 opinions
- Sondra L. McKenna and James R. McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- Boudreau v. BaughmanSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1988
- Panduit Corp. v. All States Plastic Manufacturing Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1984
- Darrell Taylor, D/B/A Darrell Taylor Topographic Charts v. Joseph B. Meirick, D/B/A Lakes IllustratedCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- Mega v. Holy Cross HospitalIllinois Supreme Court · 1986
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