Legal Opinion
Sears, Roebuck and Co. v. Zurich Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1970No. 17529_1PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, District Judge.
This, is an appeal from a District Court’s dismissal, sua sponte, of a diversity declaratory judgment action instituted by Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Sears), a New York corporation with its principal place of business at Chicago, Illinois, against Zurich Insurance Company (Zurich), a Swiss corporation with its principal place of business at Zurich, Switzerland.
Sears had been sued in the Superior Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, by John and Elizabeth Malone, and that suit was subsequently removed to the Federal District Court at Boston. The essence of the Malones’…
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