Amoco Oil Company v. Glyndon R. Ashcraft and Carolyn S. Ashcraft, Charles Bowlby Oil Co., Inc., Charles E. Bowlby, and Dorothy J. Bowlby

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Amoco brought this diversity suit to collect a debt of $62,000 from the Charles Bowlby Oil Company. It joined as additional defendants the Ashcrafts, who had guaranteed Bowlby Oil Company’s debts, and Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby, who had done likewise. Apparently neither the Bowlby company nor the Bowlbys have any assets, although they remain as parties defendant in the district court. The Ashcrafts counterclaimed against Amoco for fraud and breach of contract. The district judge granted Amoco’s motion for summary judgment against the Ashcrafts, and entered judgment in its favor…