Legal Opinion
Paulette Alonzi, Rose Flagg and Lola Starling v. Budget Construction Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 25, 1995No. 94-3171PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This case involves a tangle of jurisdictional issues. Back in 1986 the plaintiffs hired Budget Construction Company to do some electrical work on property that they owned. To pay for the work, they gave Budget a first mortgage of $25,000, which Budget assigned to Union Mortgage Company. Later they borrowed some money from Union Mortgage, giving it a second mortgage on the property. In 1993, they sued Budget and Union Mortgage in an Illinois state court for fraud and breach of contract, seeking punitive as well as compensatory damages; the specifics of the claim are of no…
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