ARCHITECTURAL METAL SYSTEMS, INC. v. CONSOLIDATED SYSTEMS, INC.

No. 94-3898.

58 F.3d 1227 (1995)

ARCHITECTURAL METAL SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONSOLIDATED SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 5, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacqueline A. Criswell (argued), James K. Borcia, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Michael G. Bruton (argued), Paul L. Price, Pretzel & Stouffer, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, FLAUM, Circuit Judge, and SHABAZ, District Judge.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

The district judge granted summary judgment for the defendant in a suit for breach of contract, and we must decide whether he did so prematurely. It is a diversity suit governed by Illinois law. The facts, construed, in light of the procedural setting, as favorably to the plaintiff as the record permits, and slightly simplified, are as follows:

On January 20, 1992, Mellon Stuart, the general contractor on a project to rehabilitate a train...

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