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CATES v. MORGAN PORTABLE BLDG. CORP.

Nos. 85-1144, 85-1228.

780 F.2d 683 (1985)

Dewey CATES and Barbara Cates, partners doing business as U.S. 40 Motel, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. MORGAN PORTABLE BUILDING CORP., a Texas corporation, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Harris, Greensfelder, Hemker, Wiese, Gale & Chappelow, St. Louis, Mo., for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee.

Terrance L. Farris, Ruppert & Benjamin, Clayton, Mo., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before POSNER, FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 30, 1986.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This diversity breach of contract suit is not the longest contract lawsuit in history, but it is one of the longest relative to the stakes, which are modest (under $60,000). The case is in its fifteenth year, and this is the third appeal to this court. (May its third coming be the last.) The present lawyers for the opposing parties were debate partners in high school at a time...

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