Legal Opinion
Ddi Seamless Cylinder International, Incorporated, and Seamless Cylinder International Corporation v. General Fire Extinguisher Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 25, 1994No. 93-2024PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This proeedurally remarkable ease began life innocently enough as a routine contract suit brought in federal district court under the diversity jurisdiction. The principal (and we shall assume only) plaintiff, DDI, manufactures the metal cylinders used in fire extinguishers. The defendant, General Fire, manufactures the extinguishers themselves. General Fire agreed to purchase a large quantity of cylinders from DDI. But after DDI had tooled up to produce the cylinders for the contract and begun producing them, General Fire repudiated the contract. It complained that the…
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