Gustafson v. Zumbrunnen

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This diversity suit governed by Wisconsin law presents an issue of federal diversity jurisdiction.

The original complaint named as plaintiff Georgia Gustafson, suing as the personal representative of the estate of her grandfather, George Skille, who had appointed her in his will, which left most of his estate to his eight grandchildren by his first wife. The suit named as defendants Skille’s lawyer, the lawyer’s law firm, and a bank in which Skille and his second wife, Betty Skille, had a joint account with some $150,000 in it, constituting, according to the complaint,…