Legal Opinion
Chronister Oil Company v. Unocal Refining and Marketing (Union Oil Company of California)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 1994No. 93-3940PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Chronister Oil Company brought this diversity suit for breach of contract against Union Oil Company (Unocal), to which Chronister had agreed to sell 25,000 barrels of gasoline. Unocal counterclaimed, charging that it was Chronister, not Unocal, that had broken their contract. The case is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as interpreted by the Illinois courts; and the magistrate judge, to whom the case was assigned for trial by consent of the parties, held after a bench trial that Chronister had broken the contract, and he awarded damages of $26,000 to Unocal,…
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