Legal Opinion
Empire Gas Corp. v. American Bakeries Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 30, 1986No. 82 C 815PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LEIGHTON, Senior District Judge.
This is a suit in which the plaintiff alleges, and defendant denies, that a contract for the sale of goods was breached by non-acceptance and repudiation. The cause is on trial before a jury; but a dispute that has its origin in the pretrial stage of this case requires the court to resolve issues concerning the admissibility of certain testimonial evidence.
Defendant seeks to call a lawyer who will testify that during pretrial discovery the plaintiff willfully, or by gross negligence, or perhaps corruptly, withheld documents which contained statements…
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