Legal Opinion
Laszlo Adam, Dennis W. Brush, Michael J. Connelly, Jack Weinstein, Marcel Fournier, William S. Kingson v. Eli S. Jacobs
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 22, 1991No. 212, Docket 91-7466PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Keenan, J., ordering defendant Eli S. Jacobs, the guarantor of payment on certain notes, to pay $4,744,285.23 to plaintiffs.
On appeal, Jacobs argues that the district court erred by addressing the merits of the plaintiffs’ guarantee of payment argument without first addressing whether this action should have been brought as a compulsory counterclaim in a suit filed previously in a federal court in Michigan. Jacobs argues that the claim in the present…
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