Legal Opinion
Crop-Maker Soil Services, Inc. v. Fairmount State Bank
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 7, 1989No. 88-1931PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Crop-Maker Soil Services, Inc., (Crop-Maker) sued Fairmount State Bank (Fair-mount Bank), claiming that Fairmount Bank defrauded Crop-Maker by omission and through misleading release of information. A bankruptcy proceeding originally included both Fairmount Bank and Crop-Maker as creditors. The district court granted Fairmount Bank’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that the matters raised in this action are barred by res judicata due to the earlier bankruptcy proceedings in that court. Crop-Maker on appeal maintains that the bankruptcy case concerned different…
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