Legal Opinion
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd v. Jack W. Tapy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 1990No. 89-2975PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is a diversity suit for breach of contract brought by the Chicago law firm of Bell, Boyd, and Lloyd against a disgruntled client, Jack Tapy, who refused to pay the last $63,000 that the firm had billed him (we round off all figures to the nearest $1,000). The district judge granted the firm’s motion for summary judgment and entered judgment in the amount just stated but refused to award postjudgment interest. While not cross-appealing from that refusal, the firm asks us to award it post-judgment interest.
Tapy had in 1986 retained James Collins, then a member of…
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